Ebola: The New Public Scare. Disease in the Bulgarian and the British Media Discourse (A Comparative Study)
Ebola: The New Public Scare. Disease in the Bulgarian and the British Media Discourse (A Comparative Study)

Summary/Abstract: Disease, at least to the general public, remains that inexplicable feeling and state caused by unseen and sometimes unknown things, such as germs, bacteria, viruses, strains of viruses, and so on, that it always provokes fear, stress, or simply concern. The media use people’s fears and sometimes amplify them using various linguistic devices which serve to boost general panic. The paper analyses some of the devices used by the media in Bulgaria and the UK in the presentation of Ebola as a new public scare.

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