Editorial. Understanding COVID-19 Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives

This collaborative essay addresses COVID-19 communication, focussing on the linguistic strategies and discursive constructions that were adopted, first to cope with unprecedented crisis scenarios of pandemic later hail post-pandemic times. It recapitulates unfolding communication from 2020 2022, espousing a perspective. To purpose, it elaborates few keywords key phrases consistently identify different phases in public domain. i.e. ‘recovery resilience’, ‘smart’ ‘virtual’, ‘new normal’, finish reflections challenges legal faced mounting social intolerance exacerbation hate speech xenophobia. The overview privileges European Union UK, latter launching mass vaccination campaign December 2020, although awareness global nature phenomenon its present repercussions. aim is frame nine research articles this issue as attempts interpret an exceptionally difficult time span form intellectual resilience.