What is it about?
The article is about the local official 's discursive behaviour in negotiating their trustworthiness in press conferences handling Tianjin blasts in China. It foucuses on how the official's use of discourse changed in different periods of the crisis.
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Why is it important?
it fobuses on discourse and trust negotiation in the context of a critical event,thus providing useful suggestion on how to deal with crisis discursively
Perspectives
This article provides insight into how discourse is used in trust repair in the context of public crisis.
Dr. Xueyu Wang
Nantong University
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This page is a summary of: A struggle for trustworthiness: Local officials’ discursive behaviour in press conferences handling Tianjin blasts in China, Discourse & Communication, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1750481316638150.
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