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UNINA9910814037003321 |
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Schweitzer Dahlia |
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Going viral : zombies, viruses, and the end of the world / / Dahlia Schweitzer |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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0-8135-9316-6 |
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SOC057000PER004030SOC052000 |
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Epidemics in mass media |
Apocalypse in mass media |
Mass media - Social aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Outbreak Narrative -- 2. The Globalization Outbreak -- 3. The Terrorism Outbreak -- 4. The Post apocalypse Outbreak -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world? In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives |
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and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions. Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it. Supplemental Study Materials for "Going Viral": https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/going-viral-dahlia-schweitzer Dahlia Schweitzer- Going Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xF0V7WL9ow |
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UNINA9910824237103321 |
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New perspectives on lexical borrowing : onomasiological, methodological and phraseological innovations / / edited by Eline Zenner and Gitte Kristiansen |
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Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Language contact and bilingualism, , 2190-698X ; ; volume 7 |
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ZennerEline |
KristiansenGitte |
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Language and languages - Foreign words and phrases |
Language and culture - Globalization |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Onomasiological, methodological and phraseological perspectives on lexical borrowing / Eline Zenner and Gitte Kristiansen -- A usage-based approach to borrowability / Ad Backus -- What makes a catchphrase catchy? : possible determinants in the borrowability of English catchphrases in Dutch / Eline Zenner, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts -- Formal variance and semantic changes in borrowing : integrating semasiology and onomasiology / Esme |
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Winter-Froemel -- Measuring and comparing the use and success of loanwords in Portugal and Brazil : a corpus-based and concept-based sociolectometrical approach / Augusto Soares da Silva -- Comparing the usage of Maori loans in spoken and written New Zealand English : a case study of Maori, Pakeha, and Kiwi / Alexander Onysko and Andreea Calude -- English loanwords and their counterparts in Dutch job advertisements : an experimental study in association overlap / Frank van Meurs, Jos Hornikx and Gerben Bossenbroek -- On the variation of gender in nominal language mixings / Astrid Rothe -- Linguistic globalisation : experiences from the Nordic laboratory / Helge Sandøy. |
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This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation and change. |
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