The Covid-19 crisis and its challenges on social issues / Covid-19: crisi e sfide nella società

This issue of Lingue Culture Mediazioni presents a substantively wide range of articles, but all connect back to the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our world. The articles are methodologically diverse as well, with many of the authors engaging in corpus analysis but others taking various other qualitative and quantitative approaches. Theoretically, the work of Ruth Wodak provides a powerful thread connecting all these works. Wodak’s (2021) observations about the significance of discursive frames for coping with the pandemic are especially penetrating and relevant, but her broader critical discursive perspective (Wodak 2011) informs much of the scholarship presented here as well. We are pleased to have had the opportunity to bring together such an impactful group of scholars for this shared effort.