<i>Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic</i>: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection

Pérez-Sobrino, Paula; Semino, Elena; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide; Koller, Veronika; Olza, Inés

doi:10.1080/10926488.2021.1949599

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“…For this, we relied on the previous literature on the topic, taking source domains present in Lakoff et al’s (1991) Master Metaphor List as conventional, for example, journey metaphors such as ‘Why did you have to go?’. Subsequently, we established a distinction between two types of creative metaphors, following research in the field (Hidalgo-Downing, 2020; Lakoff and Turner, 1989; Pérez-Sobrino et al, 2022; Semino, 2008): (1) creative developments of conventional metaphorical source domains, and (2) novel, one-off metaphorical source domains. Creativity within the first type may arise by elaboration and extension of conventional source domains, such as journey or rest / sleep , which are enriched by creating new mappings inspired in Bowie’s fictional universe, typically by exploring a non-salient mapping or because they feature a twist that casts new light on the conventional metaphor.…”

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“…Following recent research on the framing function of metaphors in discourse (Pérez-Sobrino et al, 2022;Semino et al, 2018), it can be argued that each of these metaphor types provides a different frame for understanding death, and, as such, they enable us to understand it from different experiential domains, each of which may also have different emotional connotations. It has been argued that of the six conceptualisations of death mentioned above, in the Western Christian tradition the first four (rest/sleep, journey, new life, fall) have positive connotations while the latter two (the end, loss) have negative connotations, with an overall preference for the conceptualisation of death in positive terms across different cultures (Wachowski and Sullivan, 2021) and a predominance of positive connotations in death metaphors analysed in small English and Spanish corpora (Crespo Fernández, 2006, 2013, 2014.…”

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Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London

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Pérez-Sobrino

2022

Discourse Studies

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This article explores the way in which death metaphors written in the urban mural for David Bowie in London contribute to creatively reframing the artist’s death. While research on death metaphors has focussed on traditional written genres such as obituaries and epitaphs, studies of urban memorials and shrines have focussed on the creation of fandom identities, downplaying the role played by figurativity, creativity and emotional connotation. The present article aims to bridge the gap between these two areas of study by presenting a corpus-based study of 585 items written on the mural for David Bowie. The research questions are: (1) How is Bowie’s death (metaphorically) conceptualised? (2) To what extent are death metaphors in Bowie’s mural creative? and (3) What is the relationship between the metaphorical framing of Bowie’s death and the projection of emotional connotations? The findings of our study reveal that Bowie’s songs emerge as a highly productive metaphorical source domain to understand the artist’s death, in which fans recontextualise lines from Bowie’s lyrics in creative and positive ways.

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Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London

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2022

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“…This led to several investigations into the ways in which metaphors have been used in the public realm to frame COVID-19. One of the key findings from these studies is that the pandemic was frequently framed through war-related metaphors, which communicate the severity of the COVID-19 and the necessity of stringent protective measures to limit the spread of the virus (Olza et al, 2021). Such framings (e.g., "battles", "frontline", "combat") are not unprecedented; war-based metaphorical imagery has also been dominant in discourses surrounding earlier flu-like pandemics (Taylor and Kidgell, 2021).…”

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“…This database contains instances of metaphors that offer alternative ways of describing the pandemic. Examples include framing the virus in terms of a fire or natural disaster and framing distancing and isolation practices in terms of hibernation (Pérez-Sobrino et al, 2021).…”

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A metaphor analysis of older adults' lived experience of household isolation during COVID-19

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In March 2020, Public Health England provided social distancing and shielding guidance for all adults aged 70 and over in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article seeks to provide insight into the lived experiences of older people during this period of household isolation. To do so, we analysed the metaphors used by 13 older adults during interviews discussing their experiences of household isolation, focusing on how these metaphors relate to a loss of agency. We found that participants negotiated their sense of agency through the use of metaphors involving physical force, movement, space, and animation of COVID-19. Metaphors were particularly used to discuss negative emotional impacts of the pandemic. Perceptions of a loss of agency were sometimes redressed through the use of comforting metaphors involving patterns and structure. In addition, participants explicitly rejected or refashioned dominant public metaphors that circulated as part of Government campaigns and wider public discourse to describe the pandemic and encourage certain behaviors. It has been argued that commonly used metaphors relating to containment, e.g., “bubble”, when applied to the context of household isolation, foreground the actions of those outside the container rather than those inside it, leading to a loss of feelings of agency. The participants' reactions to these suggest that common metaphors in public discourses are appropriated selectively and challenged by those at whom they are targeted. Hence, metaphor analysis can be used to paint a rich picture of the lived experience of older people experiencing household isolation, including their reaction to dominant public metaphors.

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“…This open collaborative project makes a multilinguistic and multimodal collection of pandemic-related metaphors available to researchers. This has enabled the exploration of creative metaphor use ( Pérez-Sobrino et al, 2022 ) and a study that highlights the value of fire-based metaphors ( Semino, 2021 ), which were found to be versatile and more effective than the war framing.…”

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The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Parnell³

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Applied Corpus Linguistics

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Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London

Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London

A metaphor analysis of older adults' lived experience of household isolation during COVID-19

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic

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