COVID-19 metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures / edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon, Zoltán Kövecses.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2025] |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Other author/creator | Wen, Xu, 1963 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005007717 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2005007717. |
| Other author/creator | Lu, Wei-lun (Linguist http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016011867 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2016011867. |
| Other author/creator | Kövecses, Zoltán http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86128641 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n86128641. |
| Other author/creator | Lennon, Joe (Professor of English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025513468 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025513468. |
| Series | Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication (MiLCC), 2210-4836 ; volume 11 |
| Contents | Communicating the pandemic : cognitive linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres and modalities / Joe Lennon, Wei-lun Lu, Xu Wen & Zoltan Kövecses -- How do media talk about the Covid-19 pandemic? Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers / Lucia Busso & Ottavia Tordini -- Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria / Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa & Xu Wen -- Social variation in metaphors : preferred metaphors by occupation in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan / Tetsuta Komatsubara -- Virus is death, virus is life / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk -- The voice of the virus or the virus's shadow? A psycho‑metaphorical survey / Federica Ferrari -- Out of the fires and into the pandemic : how an unprecedented bushfire season provided a metaphor for COVID-19 in Australia / Karen Sullivan -- Divergent conceptualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its management as a war in Britain and Germany / Andreas Musolf -- Communicating socio-psychological meanings : metaphors in Hong Kong press conferences on measures against COVID-19 / Molly Xie Pan & Dennis Tay -- The role of state rhetoric in the conceptualization of the COVID-19 pandemic : Ukraine vs. Belarus / Svitlana Shurma & Alla Golovnia -- Standing together by standing apart : distance, safety, and fictive deixis in COVID-19 storefront communication / Barbara Dancygier, Danielle Lee, Adrian Lou & Kevin Wong -- Metaphorical and metonymic constructions in co-speech gestures about the COVID-19 pandemic : 'handling' the crisis in Trump's and Bolsonaro's terms / Ulrike Schröder, Anna Ladilova & Thiago da Cunha Nascimento -- Visual metaphors in news cartoons on COVID-19 in China / Xu Wen & Shanfan Chen -- The Czech Coronasong : a multimodal perspective / Šárka Havlíčková Kysová & Wei-lun Lu. |
| Abstract | "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, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and contrasts between different cultures' conceptions of the illness and its aftermath. The contributions examine a variety of genres, including newspaper articles, storefront signs, artistic creations, personal interviews, social media comments, and political speeches. They look at communication in various domains-business, media, politics, economics, art, and psychiatry. And they compare past and present, showing how the modern pandemic both continued and interrupted previous patterns of discourse around illness and disease. These diverse analyses show how Cognitive Linguistics, on the cutting edge of quantitative, sociocultural, and interdisciplinary turns in linguistics, can be a powerful theoretical tool in uncovering parallels and variations in how different cultures communicate in times of crisis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025025401 |
| ISBN | 9789027228253 hardcover |
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