Metaphors of Coronavirus

Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-11-13
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt414 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor301
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030851057

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1. The Moral Frames and Coronavirus.- 2. Metaphors of the Pandemic: War.- 3. Metaphors of the Pandemic: Fire and Force of Nature.- 4. The Pandemic as Zombie Apocalypse.- 5. Epidemiology: Science, and Metaphor.- 6. Disease, Confinement & Language.- 7. ‘Bubbles’, ‘Cocoons’. The ‘Protective Ring’ and the ‘Petri Dish’: The Containment Frame and the Pandemic.- 8. Metonyms of the Pandemic.- 9. Magic, Miracle Cures and Metaphoric Thought in the Anti-Vaccine Movement.- 10. Honesty and Dishonesty in Pandemic Language.

“This book has many strengths and is an important and valuable contribution to cognitive linguistics and political communication fields, which obviously benefits from contemporary relevance to the ongoing crisis. Metaphors of Coronavirus is well worth reading by anyone – academic or lay person – with an interest in understanding the linguistic and communicative dynamics of the Coronavirus pandemic. … The takeaway message of this book is, for me, that metaphor is simply a linguistic tool and is not inherently dishonest.” (Emily Faux, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 21 (6), 2022)