Language on Health Under COVID-19 Pandemic. Part I

The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected our lives in every social and personal sphere since its outbreak. We have carefully managed to maintain our lives safe and stable in accordance with instructions and guidelines officially issued by the government and health authority, which can be a great source of stress. On the other hand, we have encountered a lot of counter-discourse claiming that the officially recommended measures to prevent the spread of infection are not merely ineffectual but also harmful to people’s health, which is often referred as “conspiracy theory”. It sometimes brings the breakups of intimate relationships such as family, friends, and community. We understand, therefore, that the pandemic has affected our physical, mental, and relational health thoroughly. In this perspective, we invite scholars and practitioners to submit paper proposals on topics related to, although not limited to, the following topics:

- the role of language to help people keep themselves safe and healthy,

- official language accepted and refused by lay people,

- discourse of media covering pandemic,

- discourse about infection in daily life,

- discourse in SNS about infection and prevention

- infodemic and daily practices, etc.