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During the pandemic emergency, several communicative artifacts have been produced. These language practices adhered to the crisis risk communication strategies.
Within the COVID-19 pandemic to date, the discourse analysis is limited to media or leaders language with little analysis of institutional crisis communication.
This contribution aims at filling this gap by presenting a documentary analysis of the Italian case.
Data includes 648 official documents produced between the declaration of the state of emergency (January 31, 2020) and its cessation (March 31, 2022).
Results shed light on the technocratic approach the Italian crisis discourse laid on, in which the nature of risk was objective and knowable.
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Keywords: Covid-19, discourse analysis, documentary analysis, crisis risk communication
Topic Classification:
Nations: Italy
Geographical Unit: not applicable
Analysis Unit: text unit
Universe: All documents (laws, decree-laws, decrees, circulars, ordinances, reports/verbals, etc.) issued during the state of emergency in Italy (31 January 2020 - 31 March 2022) by the following institutions: President of the Council, Ministry of Health, Head of the Civil Protection Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the Technical Scientific Committee.
Sample Procedure: 648 documents. Non-probabilistic purposive sample. The documents were selected from those freely accessible on the official websites of the institutions considered, filtering on the keyword 'COVID-19'. Among the results obtained, documents concerning restrictive decisions on fundamental rights and civil liberties (e.g. freedom of movement), enforced everyday freedoms (e.g. wearing masks, case tracking, quarantines, physical distancing, Green Pass), as well as closures (e.g. school closures, business closures and bans on public events) were selected.
Weight: No weight used
Collection Mode: other
Collection Size: UniData supplies: 648 documents in PDF o MS Word format (ita); 1 analysis file in REFI-QDA Project format (ita); 1 methodological notes in PDF format (ita), 1 Data List in PDF format (ita) (651 file)
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Data are released in according to Creative Commons – Attribution 4.0 Licence, available here.
Source Contact: Sonia Bergamo - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Citation:
Bergamo, Sonia. (2020-2022) Global risk and uncertainty. Documentary analysis of the COVID-19 state of emergency. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SN246. Data file version 1.0 doi:10.20366/unimib/unidata/SN246-1.0
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