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Abstract：
This article explores the importance of constructions of temporality within the UK government\'s discourse on the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis across the first six months of 2020. Drawing on over 120 official texts, it traces the emergence of discontinuous, linear, and cyclical conceptions of time in representations of the virus\' pasts, presents, and futures. Three arguments are made. First, constructions of temporality were fundamental to the social, political, and historical positioning of the virus. Second, these constructions were constitutively important in producing, explaining, justifying and celebrating the UK government\'s response to the virus. And, third, tensions and inconsistencies between these constructions of temporality highlight the contingent, and constructed, character of official discourse, pulling into question the inevitability of the UK\'s response and opening opportunity for critical intervention.
摘要：
本文探讨了2020年前六个月英国政府关于COVID-19冠状病毒危机的话语中时间性结构的重要性。借鉴了120多个官方文本，它追溯了不连续的出现，线性,以及病毒过去表现中的时间周期性概念，礼物,和期货。提出了三个论点。首先,时间性的建构是社会的基础，政治,以及病毒的历史定位。第二,这些结构在生产中具有重要意义，解释,证明和庆祝英国政府对病毒的反应。And,第三,这些时间性结构之间的紧张和不一致突出了特遣队，建造，官方话语的性质，质疑英国做出回应的必然性和开启关键干预的机会。
