We Germans know what solidarity may accomplish’ – The Tsunami crisis as an epideictic situation
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https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v12i46.184Keywords:
Tsunami crisis, crisis communication, epideictic rhetoric, the rhetorical situation, doxaAbstract
The tsunami disaster of Christmas 2004 struck without warning and many countries were faced with totally unforeseen problems. One of theese was how the citizens in the tourists’ home countries should be informed and how the political leaders should act in order to create as much trust as possible for the crisis management and for the actions taken in response to the catastrophe. This task was, as known, dealt with in different ways in the countries that were affected and among others Sweden received extensive critic for failure to act and for lacking in communicative ability. In this study one of the positive examples shall be in focus, more precisely the German government’s communicative actons taken the days after the catastrophe.
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