Discourses of Disruption in Asia

Ikuko Nakane is Associate Professor in Japanese at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, multilingualism, and legal discourse. Her work primarily focuses on negotiation of power and solidarity in institutional discourse. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Semiotica, and Multilingua.Claire Maree is Professor in Japanese, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. A queer theorist and linguist, Claire Maree mobilises linguistic and cultural studies methodologies to examine language, identity, and the media. Claire's work has been foundational to the establishment of Japanese language, gender, and sexuality studies.Michael C. Ewing is Associate Professor in Indonesian Studies, University of Melbourne. Michael's research interests include interactional linguistics and linguistic anthropology, with a focus on the languages of Indonesia. His current work involves the youth language and the nexus between standard and colloquial modes of grammatical organisation in everyday conversation.

• Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Creating and Contesting Meaning in a Global Health Crisis - Ikuko Nakane, Claire Maree, and Michael C. Ewing Chapter 2 Martyrs in Masks: the "Battle-to-Saviour" Story Grammar of COVID-19 Coverage in Chinese Communist Party Media - Susanna Ackroyd Chapter 3 What Has Machine Translation "Mis-Translated" about COVID-19? What "Mistakes" Can Tell us About Humanity that Machines Cannot - Wayne Wen-chun Liang, Ester S.M. Leung, and Chun Hin Tse Chapter 4 From "Selfless Hospitality" to "Get Out": Disrupting the 2020 Games, Claire Maree, Chapter 5 Political Leaders' Discourse Addressing "Corona Discrimination" in Japan - Ikuko Nakane, Chapter 6 (Im)politeness of Masked and Non-Masked Faces in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Japan and Australia,Jun Ohashi, Chapter 7 COVID-19 and the Construction of Wuli (We): Marriage-Migrant Women and Care Discourses in South Korea - Mi Yung Park and Hakyoon Lee Chapter 8 Movement Control Orders or "Making Confusing Orders"? Discourses of Confusion About Lockdowns in a Malaysian News Portal - Richard Powell and Zarina Othman Chapter 9 Taiwan Inside and Out: Redefining the Self during the Pandemic - Craig A. Smith and Dayton Lekner Chapter 10 Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Chinese Translation of Government COVID-19 Health Information in Australia - Lachlan Thomas-Walters, Suqin Qian, and Delia Lin Complete List of Works Cited