How our COVID language made everything harder
I have spent a career writing, teaching and speaking about the power of spoken word. I bring a rhetorical understanding of language to various settings: how medical professionals talk, how we talk about people with disabilities, talk within interpersonal relationships and now, talk about COVID. By rhetorical understanding, I mean that words have meanings, are persuasive, contain energy, and have consequences. In short, words create worlds. I refer to this …
How our COVID language made everything harder
