Covid-19: metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon, Zoltán Kövecses

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wen, Xu, 1963- editor.

Lu, Wei-lun (Linguist), editor.

Lennon, Joe (Professor of English), editor.

Kövecses, Zoltán, editor.

Series:

Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication (MiLCC) 2210-4836 volume 11

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2025]

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes--as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Communicating the pandemic

COVID meets Cognitive Linguistics

Overview

Metaphor in mainstream newspapers

Metaphor in interlocution

War metaphors and alternatives

Metaphor in governance discourse

Metaphor and metonymy in the multimodal dimension

References

Chapter 1 How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic?

1. Introduction

2. Materials and methods

3. Topic models

4. Topic-specific metaphors

5. Metaphors and complex systems

5.1 economy and society are buildings

5.2 economy and society are machines

5.3 economy and society are living organisms

6. Content analysis

7. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Appendix A. Corpus sources

Appendix B. Metaphorical networks across topics

Chapter 2 Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria

2. Metaphor in conceptual metaphor theory

3. The Hausas and the Hausa Language

4. Methodology

5. Analysis and discussion

5.1 COVID-19 description

5.2 COVID-19 transmission

5.3 COVID-19 effects

5.4 COVID-19 fight

6. Findings and conclusions

Funding

Abbreviations used in the chapter

Chapter 3 Social variation in metaphors

Introduction

Methodology

Data

Identification of metaphors

Description of metaphors

Results

Conceptual variation in metaphors

Social variation in metaphors

Discussion

War metaphors in political and medical contexts

War metaphors in economic and commercial contexts

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Chapter 4 Virus is death, virus is life

1. Introduction

2. Research objectives and methodology

2.1 Research objectives and the data

2.2 Research methods

3. Analysis of the data

Part I. virus dynamics [outburst, expansion, effects, containment]

(i) personification

(ii) agentivization

(iii) objectification [reification]

(iv) space/location

(v) event

Part II. isolation

(i) atomization

(ii) war

(iii) concentration camp

(remote) distance education

(i) obstacle course

(ii) distance education

séance

emotions (following isolation)

(i) racing

(ii) feeling thirsty

Part III. nature of the virus and the epidemic

A. virus is death

(i) death / doomsday, destruction

(ii) murderer

victims

(iii) imprisonment

(iv) encagement

(v) wave

(vi) crisis

(vii) loneliness

(viii) abyss/chasm

(ix) war

(x) muzzle

(xi) sports

(xii) religious scenario

B. virus is life

(i) hope9

(ii) teacher

(iii) discoverer

(iv) life, reviver

(v) commodity to make profit on

(vi) sharpener

(vii) magnifying glass

(viii) bulb (light)

(ix) new opportunities

(x) virus is the best thing that happened to me

(xi) sedater

C. virus is a double-faceted gestalt

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version Wen, Xu Covid-19

ISBN:

9789027244598

9027244596

OCLC:

1545123428

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