Grady Wayne
Grady Wayne - Pandexicon How The Language Of The Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality - Hardcover
Grady Wayne - Pandexicon How The Language Of The Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality - Hardcover
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Description: Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo. Margaret Atwood This exploration of the many new terms of the Covid - 19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever - evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality. When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some such as uptick and pivot had existed before but now took on new meaning and others such as covidivorce quarantini covexit and shecession appeared for the first time their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary we became more able to adapt to change to domesticate it in a sense and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the Before Times ) and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world and ending with a contemplation of what the After Times might look like this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.
Title: Pandexicon How The Language Of The Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Author(s): Grady Wayne
Publisher: Greystone Books Canada
Barcode: 9781778400391
Pages: 320 Pages, B&W Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Social & Cultural History
Description: Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo. Margaret Atwood This exploration of the many new terms of the Covid - 19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever - evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality. When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some such as uptick and pivot had existed before but now took on new meaning and others such as covidivorce quarantini covexit and shecession appeared for the first time their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary we became more able to adapt to change to domesticate it in a sense and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the Before Times ) and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world and ending with a contemplation of what the After Times might look like this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.
Title: Pandexicon How The Language Of The Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Author(s): Grady Wayne
Publisher: Greystone Books Canada
Barcode: 9781778400391
Pages: 320 Pages, B&W Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Social & Cultural History
