The COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of pressure on all the world's health systems and
public health leaders who have often found themselves unprepared to handle an …

While communication generally embodies an essential part of public leadership, this is even
more true in times of crisis when uncertainty prevails, and the public expects the leader not …

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is
of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health …

This paper investigates how pronouns were used by UK government speakers to allocate
responsibility to themselves and others in all 92 daily televised COVID-19 briefings that were …

World leaders had to guide their people through difficult times in 2020, with many trying to
win compliance and support via a range of channels of communication. Cyril Ramaphosa …

Women's underrepresentation in political leadership has been a constant global challenge
during recent decades. Although women's leadership and its impact on organizational and …

During major crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, government officeholders issue
commands to change people's behaviour (eg,'Stay at home!') and express thanks to …

This study explores the effectiveness of image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis
communication at the highest levels of administration. By integrating corpus-assisted …

COVID-19 pandemic responses saw the large-scale return of quarantine, a once-common
public health technology which, in modern society, had largely been replaced by infection …

Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power
asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms …