The risks and actions in the Covid‑19 pandemic: a contrastive analysis of the Portuguese and Chinese news under a frame analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i11.35803Keywords:
Covid‑19 pandemic, Media framing, Frame semantics, FrameNetAbstract
This article explores, from a contrasting perspective, the Risk and Action frames in Portuguese and Chinese news relating to Covid‑19 pandemic. For this, it was built an interface between Media Framing and Frame Semantics in order to observe the two frames from a macro and a micro level, represented in the related news of the largest news agency in Portugal and China – Lusa and Xinhua. Two corpora were created in the software AntConc which gathers the selected news from the two agencies in the period of the isolation of Wuhan (January 27 – April 8, 2020). The research results point to the fact that the two frames were used in both, however, the risks and actions represented differ.
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