Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid: A corpus investigation

Taylor, Charlotte; Kidgell, Jasmin

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100503

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“…In general, the semantic change of 防控 prevention and control was in line with the orders of the government, since the word itself denotes the government's major mission during the pandemic, i.e., to mobilize the whole society to control the pandemic situation. Similar to Wicke and Bolognesi (2020) who found many war-related terms on Twitter during the pandemic, as mentioned in the previous subsection, we also find that the hot words fall into the War metaphor, which is frequently used in all flu-like pandemics around the world (Taylor and Kidgell 2021).…”

Section: Semantic Change Of 防控 Prevention and Controlsupporting

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Dynamics of language in social emergency: investigating COVID-19 hot words on Weibo

Zhou¹,

Li²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

Glottometrics

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Drawing on word embeddings techniques and tracking the frequency and semantic change of hot words on Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study investigates how language and discourse change during crisis. More specifically, correlation tests were conducted between word frequency ranks, pandemic data, and word meaning change ratio. Results indicated that the frequency of some hot words changed with both pandemic data and the frequency of other hot words, which were significantly correlated with the American pandemic data rather than that of China. Moreover, February of 2020 saw the most distinctive semantic changes marked by a large part of the nearest neighbors for WAR metaphors. The correlations between changes in the frequency and nearest neighbors of COVID-19 related hot words exhibited some acceptable peculiarities. This study proves the availability of studying discourse through language change by observing minor semantic change on connotation level from social media, which adds a new perspective to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Section: Semantic Change Of 防控 Prevention and Controlsupporting

confidence: 83%

Dynamics of language in social emergency: investigating COVID-19 hot words on Weibo

Zhou¹,

Li²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

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“…A recent study analysed the flue-like pandemics before the COVID-19 crisis in a corpus-based study is (Taylor & Kidgel, 2021). They investigated how metaphors are employed in two corpora: Times Online, which includes articles from 1785-2011 and the Hansard Corpus of UK parliamentary debates from 1803 to 2005.…”

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COVID-19 IS WAR, WATER & A PERSON: Metaphorical Language of the Coronavirus Disease in "the Jordan Times" Newspaper

Amaireh¹

2022

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Metaphors permeate our daily communication, and they are part of our cognition. The present study investigates metaphors in a corpus-based study during the Coronavirus disease 19 crisis (COVID-19) using the Antconc Software. The way written media discourse framed the COVID-19 Crisis, especially in the Middle East received little attention from discourse analysts. The data include news editorials about the Coronavirus disease 19 from April 1, 2020 to July 5, 2020 collected from "the Jordan Times" Newspaper in English. The metaphors will be analysed according to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980; 2003) perspective of Conceptual Metaphors and Charteris-Black (2004) of Critical Metaphor Analysis. The quantitative analysis shows that the conceptual metaphors COVID-19 IS WAR, COVID-19 IS WATER, and COVID-19 IS A PERSON are highly used in the corpus to frame the pandemic. The conceptual metaphor COVID-19 IS WAR is not only used to represent a war against the disease, but also a war between countries. So, the metaphorical use is politicised, and reflects hidden ideology. The quantitative analysis asserts that the context is the decisive factor for the analysis of certain lexical items related to the pandemic and identifying whether they are literally or metaphorically used.

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“…In the case of climate change, a common finding across metaphor studies is that the UK media tend to discuss climate change through War 2 metaphors (Atanasova and Koteyko 2017;Cohen 2011). Studies of the metaphors used to conceptualise infectious diseases in the UK media similarly find that War metaphors predominate (Nerlich 2010;Taylor and Kidgell 2021;Washer and Joffe 2006; but see Wallis and Nerlich 2005 for an exception)-including in the reporting of COVID-19 (Musolff 2020;Semino 2021).…”

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How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

Atanasova

2021

Journalism Practice

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COVID-19 has provoked fears that the heavy reporting of pandemic developments may cause climate change to slip from public attention. Views have also converged that the focus should be on the positive lessons of COVID-19 for addressing climate change. This paper examined Guardian Online and Positive News to identify examples of good practice in reporting the synergistic effects of climate change and COVID-19, as both are committed to covering climate change and practice solutions-oriented constructive journalism that provides context by explaining relations between issues. The study sought to identify the types of synergistic effects that were reported and how they were reported through metaphors-key conceptualisation tools. Analysis of 153 news articles published in the first year of the pandemic showed that the coverage of synergistic effects was solutions-oriented and synergistic effects were discussed mainly through Movement and Colour metaphors-particularly the colour Green. War metaphors which have dominated reporting when climate change and COVID-19 have been discussed separately were rare. Reliance on Movement and Colour metaphors can be interpreted as a positive practice, as Movement metaphors are familiar, vivid and more flexible than War metaphors, while Green metaphors are closely associated with environmentalism and have positive connotations.

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Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid: A corpus investigation

Cited by 25 publications

References 48 publications

Dynamics of language in social emergency: investigating COVID-19 hot words on Weibo

Dynamics of language in social emergency: investigating COVID-19 hot words on Weibo

COVID-19 IS WAR, WATER & A PERSON: Metaphorical Language of the Coronavirus Disease in "the Jordan Times" Newspaper

How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

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