Covid-19: metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures / edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon, Zoltán Kövecses.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2025] |
| Description | 1 online resource (352 pages). |
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| Other author/creator | Wen, Xu, 1963- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFkprQpvpFFJwk9Vk3WjC http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2005007717 |
| Other author/creator | Lu, Wei-lun (Linguist), editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvWwXrpdGjWxMjpYkB7BK http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2016011867 |
| Other author/creator | Lennon, Joe (Professor of English), editor. http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025513468 |
| Other author/creator | Kövecses, Zoltán, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrm4hhM83MMKMwyB7HHmd http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n86128641 |
| Series | Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication (MiLCC), 2210-4836 ; volume 11 |
| 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 -- Metaphor in mainstream newspapers -- 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 |
| Contents | 5.2 economy and society are machines -- 5.3 economy and society are living organisms -- 6. Content analysis -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. Corpus sources -- Appendix B. Metaphorical networks across topics -- Chapter 2 Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria -- 1. Introduction -- 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 |
| Contents | 6. Findings and conclusions -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations used in the chapter -- References -- 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 -- References -- Metaphor in interlocution -- Chapter 4 Virus is death, virus is life -- 1. Introduction |
| Contents | 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 |
| Contents | 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 |
| Contents | C. virus is a double-faceted gestalt |
| 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. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Wen, Xu Covid-19 Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2025 9789027228253 |
| Issued in other form | Print version : 9789027228253 |
| ISBN | 9789027244598 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 9027244596 (e-book) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000328863 |
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