Narrative Media Framing in Political Discourse
Paper • 2506.00737 • Published
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11.03.2020 | Merkel | Angela Merkel calls for solidarity
Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the everybody in Germany to demonstrate solidarity and thus delay the spread of the coronavirus. We must try to buy time and minimise the strain on the health system, she said. This will protect elderly people and those with pre-existing conditio... |
18.03.2020 | Merkel | Fellow citizens,
The coronavirus is changing daily life in our country dramatically at the present. Our idea of normality, of public life, social togetherness - all of this is being put to the test as never before.
Millions of you cannot go to work, your children cannot go to school or kindergarten, theatres and cine... |
03.04.2020 | Merkel | Good afternoon to you all,
I’m happy to be able to address you from the Federal Chancellery again today. My home quarantine is over, and I am well. I now have an inkling of what it’s like to spend two weeks alone at home, two weeks when the phone and internet are your only connection to the outside world. It’s not eas... |
06.04.2020 | Merkel | "We must show that we are ready to defend and strengthen Europe"
The German government intends to take steps at national level as well as taking action agreed within the European Union, announced Chancellor Angela Merkel following a meeting of what has become known as the Corona Cabinet. The new steps relate in particu... |
09.04.2020 | Merkel | "Grounds for cautious optimism"
Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on everyone in Germany not to let up in their efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus over the Easter weekend. The latest figures, she said, give grounds for cautious optimism. Now it is important not to become careless, not to think we are safe ... |
20.04.2020 | Merkel | CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, before I speak about another corona cabinet decision that is very important to me, I would like to comment briefly on the current situation.
Over the last four weeks, that is, since the introduction of severe containment measures and social distancing, much has been achieved o... |
23.04.2020 | Merkel | Dr Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor:
Mr President, Fellow Members of this House, ladies and gentlemen,
We are going through altogether exceptional, serious times. And all of us, the Government and the Parliament, our entire country, are facing a test the likes of which we have not seen since the Second World War, sin... |
30.04.2020 | Merkel | FEDERAL CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, the Heads of Government of the Länder and I held discussions once again about the major challenges that all members of the public and also all levels of our federal country are facing in the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no template whatsoever for this challenge and no his... |
06.05.2020 | Merkel | FEDERAL CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, as announced quite some time ago, we continued the scheduled discussions between the Minister-Presidents of the Länder and the Federal Government today. I think we can also say today that the very first phase of the pandemic now lies behind us. But we must always remembe... |
11.05.2020 | Merkel | FEDERAL CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve just paid a virtual visit, that’s to say I had a video conference with the health office in Harz district, the district commissioner as well as Minister-President Haseloff. With this visit, I wanted to thank all health offices in the Federal Republic... |
18.05.2020 | Merkel | CHANCELLOR MERKEL: Ladies and gentlemen, not only am I happy to have had a video conference with French President Emmanuel Macron today, as has become standard in the meantime during the pandemic, I’m also pleased that we’re able to hold the press conference today in a way that will allow you to ask the two of us quest... |
04.06.2020 | Merkel | Secretary-General António Guterres,
Boris Johnson,
Mr Berkley,
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to thank all those involved in this truly important conference. Together, we can create the prerequisites for vaccinating a further 300 million children in the coming years in order to protect them fro... |
03.03.2020 | Johnson | Good morning and thank you for coming along, and I am very glad to be joined this morning by the government’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor.
Today we have published the Coronavirus Action Plan setting out how all four parts of the UK will take all necessary and reasonable steps to tackle this outb... |
09.03.2020 | Johnson | This morning I chaired a meeting of the government’s COBR emergency committee on the Coronavirus outbreak.
The First Ministers of Scotland and Wales and the First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland also attended and we agreed to continue to work closely in the weeks and months ahead.
We received a... |
12.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon everybody and thank you very much for coming.
I’ve just chaired a meeting of the government’s emergency committee including ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
And it’s clear that coronavirus, COVID-19, continues and will continue to spread across the world and our country over the nex... |
16.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon everybody, thank you very much for coming. I wanted to bring everyone up to date with the national fight back against the new coronavirus and the decisions that we’ve just taken in COBR for the whole of the UK.
As we said last week, our objective is to delay and flatten the peak of the epidemic by bring... |
17.03.2020 | Johnson | I want to go through our overall plan for beating this new coronavirus.
First, we must stop the disease spreading to a point where it overwhelms our NHS. Every country in the world has the same problem.
This is a disease that is so dangerous and so infectious that without drastic measures to check its progress it wou... |
18.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon. And thanks for coming or for indeed tuning in to these daily updates. I want to introduce, I’m sure you know Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, and you know Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Advisor.
I want to tell you where we got to in our national fightback against the cor... |
19.03.2020 | Johnson | I want to begin by thanking everyone, by thanking you, in the media, and also thanking everyone for the huge efforts that the country is making to comply with the advice that we’ve been given
And we’re asking such a huge amount,
asking students to put their education on hold,
we’re asking people not to socialise in ... |
20.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon and thank you for coming again,
Today I am joined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Jennie Harries deputy chief medical officer.
Yesterday I set out the ambition of this government to turn the tide against coronavirus within 3 months. And I want to repeat that determination today.
We ... |
22.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon everyone
Thank you for coming, and thank you to Robert Jenrick, the Communities Secretary, and Dr Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer.
I want again to thank everyone in the country today for the huge effort that we are collectively making.
I want to thank the amazing workers in the NHS, ev... |
23.03.2020 | Johnson | Good Evening,
The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades – and this country is not alone.
All over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer.
And so tonight I want to update you on the latest steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to h... |
25.03.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon.
Thank you for joining us for today’s daily briefing on coronavirus.
I would like to update you all on the government’s plan to defeat the virus and on the latest developments.
I am joined once again by our Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, and the Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Va... |
30.04.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon, welcome everyone again to this Number Ten press conference where I am joined by Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance our Chief Scientific Advisor
And I am sorry not to have been part of this trio for so long
I want to thank everybody who has been doing such a good jo... |
10.05.2020 | Johnson | It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war.
And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly.
You have put up with all the hardships of that programme o... |
11.05.2020 | Johnson | Good evening and thank you for joining us for this Downing Street press conference.
First of all, I want to update you on the latest data in our fight against coronavirus. I can report through the Government’s ongoing testing and monitoring programme that, as of today:
1,921,770 tests for coronavirus have now been ca... |
24.05.2020 | Johnson | Good afternoon.
I want to begin by answering the big question that people have been asking in the last 48 hours. And that is – is this Government asking you - the people, the public, to do one thing while senior people here in government do something else?
Have we been asking you to make sacrifices, to obey social di... |
25.05.2020 | Johnson | Good evening and welcome to the Number Ten Coronavirus Press Conference
Before I turn to this evening’s announcements, I want to update you on the latest data
3,532,634 tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the UK, including 73,726 tests carried out yesterday;
261,184 people have tested positive, that’s... |
28.05.2020 | Johnson | Good evening,
Before I set out our next steps in the fight against the coronavirus, let me update you on the latest data:
3,918,079 tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the UK, including 119,587 tests carried out yesterday;
269,127 people have tested positive, that’s an increase of 1,887 cases since yes... |
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This dataset contains all publicly available speeches on COVID-19 made by the heads of three countries (Australia, Britain, Germany) during COVID-19 onset (February to June 2020)..
The dataset is used in the following paper (to appear in ACL 2025 Findings): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00737
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@article{otmakhova2025narrative, title={Narrative Media Framing in Political Discourse}, author={Otmakhova, Yulia and Frermann, Lea}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00737}, year={2025} }
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