Words matter: political and gender analysis of speeches made by heads of government during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on political leadership around the world. Differences in how leaders address the pandemic through public messages have practical implications for building trust and an effective response within a country.Methods We analysed the speeches made by 20...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	BMJ Global Health
Main Authors:	Roopa Dhatt, Sara Dada, Henry Charles Ashworth, Marlene Joannie Bewa
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMJ Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Online Access:	https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/1/e003910.full

Similar Items

Does global health governance walk the talk? Gender representation in World Health Assemblies, 1948–2021
by: Dheepa Rajan, et al.
Published: (2022-08-01)

Affective Political Polarization and Hate Speech: Made for Each Other?
by: Denis K. Stukal, et al.
Published: (2022-09-01)

Not even a word: Politics of speech and silence in Palestinian memories
by: Sara Rawash
Published: (2021-06-01)

Made by entangled words and wool
by: Samira Jamouchi
Published: (2025-06-01)

Changing the semantic meanings of words when they are used in modern Russian political speech
by: Saad Jihad Ajaj, et al.
Published: (2019-03-01)

A Gender-and Age-based Study of “Taboo Words” in the Speech of Persian Speakers
by: Zahra Khaleqi, et al.
Published: (2024-07-01)

And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us: On zombies, politcal protests and the transmodality of political metaphors
by: Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
Published: (2015-05-01)

Old creatures and poor children. The use of non-gendered words for gendered individuals in historical speech-related material
by: Sara Lilja Visén
Published: (2012-12-01)

THE POLITICAL IDEAL (FORM OF GOVERNMENT) IN THE «WORD» AND «MESSAGE» («PRAYER») OF DANIIL ZATOCHNIK
by: Zolotukhina Natalia, et al.
Published: (2023-08-01)

Does Gender Based Representation Matters in Fostering Political Inclusion of Women in Local Governments? A Case of India
by: Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra, et al.
Published: (2023-09-01)

Gender biases and hate speech: Promoters and targets in the Argentinean political context.
by: Laia Domenech Burin, et al.
Published: (2025-01-01)

Ethics and Gender in Taliban Political Thought: Women\'s Rights and Freedom of Speech
by: Ghorban Nahani Pour, et al.
Published: (2024-07-01)

The Words Matter
by: Melanie Boyd, et al.
Published: (2024-01-01)

“Words Matter”
by: Baz Dreisinger
Published: (2020-07-01)

Colour Words (Hand-Made Visualisations of Literature)
by: Karen Thompson
Published: (2023-08-01)

KOTEN, Jiří: HOW FICTION IS MADE WITH WORDS
by: Ivana Taranenková
Published: (2015-05-01)

What made us “hunter-gatherers of words”
by: Cedric Boeckx, et al.
Published: (2023-02-01)

Corporate governance and earnings management: Does gender matter?
by: Ria Karina
Published: (2021-12-01)

Encounters: Word and Image, Speech and Body
by: Alice Jedlicková
Published: (2024-11-01)

Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Word translation and Part of speech
by: ZHANG Chunxiang, et al.
Published: (2020-06-01)

Sidebar: Words matter
by: Robert Herrmann, et al.
Published: (2004-04-01)

Sidebar: Words matter
by: R Herrmann, et al.
Published: (2004-04-01)

Words that matter: A machine learning analysis of United Nations General Assembly speeches and their influence on aid allocation
by: Alessio Mitra
Published: (2024-09-01)

Neosemantization of Word NISHCHEBROD in Modern Russian Speech
by: N. G. Babenko, et al.
Published: (2019-11-01)

Word classes in the spontaneous speech of preschool children
by: Јеlena Lj. Spasić
Published: (2024-12-01)

Borrowed words in the oral speech of Mongolian Kazakhs
by: Aizhan Baigazh
Published: (2024-09-01)

Pejorative Words Indicating Indonesian Hate Speech
by: Citra Suryanovika, et al.
Published: (2023-06-01)

The Development of Ilocano Word Lists for Speech Audiometry
by: Reynita R. Sagon, et al.
Published: (2006-11-01)

The BioVisualSpeech Corpus of Words with Sibilants for Speech Therapy Games Development
by: Sofia Cavaco, et al.
Published: (2020-10-01)

Guessing errors made by children with dyslexia in word and text reading
by: Margot De Rom, et al.
Published: (2024-08-01)

Two-word Utterances in the Speech of Young Children: Gender Aspect according to MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
by: Marina B. Eliseeva, et al.
Published: (2023-12-01)

Political Communication Strategy of the Regional Head in Managing Government in North Gorontalo Regency
by: Yusa Djuyandi
Published: (2017-06-01)

Voice, speech and gender:
by: Erwan Pépiot
Published: (2015-06-01)

Words Matter: Discourse and Numeracy
by: Samuel L. Tunstall
Published: (2016-07-01)

Legal Rhetoric in American Political Speeches: A Qualitative Analysis of Persuasion, Governance, and Constitutional Discourse
by: Maria-Magdalena LĂPĂDAT
Published: (2025-01-01)

Polite Speech Emerges From Competing Social Goals
by: Erica J. Yoon, et al.
Published: (2023-10-01)

Manipulative Influence in the Spanish Political Discourse: Words Stereotypes, Words Symbols and Words Slogans
by: K. V. Kucherenko
Published: (2012-10-01)

Detection of Hate Speech using BERT and Hate Speech Word Embedding with Deep Model
by: Hind Saleh, et al.
Published: (2023-12-01)

Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel: scaffolding from child-directed speech
by: Daniel eYurovsky, et al.
Published: (2012-10-01)

Speech Acts and Politeness in Nixon and Bush's Victory Speech
by: Tha'er Adnan Jameel, et al.
Published: (2021-09-01)