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List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, Andreas Musolff, Ruth Breeze, Kayo Kondo and Sara Vilar-Lluch -- Part I: The Discourse of Authority in a Global Crisis: Who Defines (If There Is) a Pandemic? -- 1 COVID-19 Press Conferences Across Time: World Health Organization vs. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dennis Tay -- 2 Exploring the Multimodal Representation of COVID-19 on the Official Homepage of World Health Organization (WHO): A Social-Semiotic Approach, Amir H. Y. Salama -- 3 COVID-19 Representations in Political Statements: A Corpus-Driven Analysis, Alexandra Papamanoli and Themis P. Kaniklidou -- 4 How Autocrats Cope with the Corona Challenge: Belarus vs. Russia, Daniel Weiss -- 5 Counting Coronavirus: Mathematical Language in The UK Response to Covid-19, Lee Jarvis -- Part II: The Discourse of Crisis Management: How is the Public Meant to and How Does it Understand the Pandemic? -- 6 "Coronavirus Explainers" for Public Communication of Science: Everything the Public Needs to Know, María José Luzón -- 7 'COVID Warriors: An Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Children's Books to Help them Understand Covid-19, María Muelas-Gil -- 8 Corona in the Linguistic Landscape, Neele Mundt and Frank Polzenhagen -- 9 Political Comedy and the Challenges of Public Communication during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Corpus-Based Study of Last Week Tonight's Coverage of the Pandemic, Virginia Zorzi -- 10 Social Reaction to a New Health Threat: The Perception of the COVID-19 Health Crisis by British and Spanish Readerships, Sara Vilar-Lluch -- 11 How to Pass this Exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through Metaphors in Turkish Online Public Discourse, Melike Bas and Esranur Efeoglu-Özcan -- Part III: The Discourse of 'War' against the Pandemic: How to 'Fight' COVID-19? -- 12 When Wars are Good: Emotional Unpacking Anti-Coronavirus Measures, Molly Xie Pan and Joanna Zhuoan Chen -- 13 Legitimising a Global Fight for a Shared Future: A Critical Metaphor Anal