Science communication in times of crisis Communicating science in crisis societies: Challenges across disciplines contexts and nations Pascal Hohaus Which facts to trust in the debate on climate change On knowledge and plausibility in times of crisis Martin Böhnert and Paul Reszke Letters to power: Authority appeals in the communication of scientific consensus Collin Syfert Pivoting to support science communication in times of crisis: A case study of the Government of Canadas Glossary on the COVID 19 pandemic Lynne Bowker COVID 19 neologisms between metaphor and culture: A multilingual corpus based study Amal Haddad Haddad Persuasion in health communication: The case of Saudi and Australian tweets on COVID 19 vaccination Dina Abdel Salam El Dakhs Communicating risks of an Anti COVID 19 vaccine in Poland: A comparative case study of content style and advocacy of three media outlets Katarzyna Molek Kozakowska and Sofiia Struchkova Coronavirus as a political weapon: The COVID pandemic through the lens of the us Alt Right Media Zeynep Cihan Koca Helvacı Science versus The U.S. response to the COVID 19 pandemic John M. Callahan and Robert Jensen Contributors: Biographical notes Index. This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID 19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in the context of science scepticism) and climate change (e.g. plausibility judgements or the role of scientists). They also relate their approaches to past crises e.g. 9 11 or the Galileo affair. This volume is unique in that it is interdisciplinary from a theoretical and methodological perspective. In that respect the authors apply concepts from corpus linguistics discourse analysis rhetoric news values analysis pragmatics and terminology research to various types of data such as newspaper headlines Tweets open letters corpora or glossaries. The case studies are situated within different cultural contexts with various languages being examined i.e. Polish Arabic English French German and Spanish. Elevating our understanding of the interface of science communication and crisis communication this collection of articles proves valuable to scholars and students from linguistics communication science political science sociology and philosophy of science