Audience Perceptions of COVID-19 Metaphors: The Role of Source Domain and Country Context

Brugman, Britta C.; Droog, Ellen; Reijnierse, W. Gudrun; Leymann, Saskia; Frezza, Giulia; Lavalette, Kiki Y. Renardel de

doi:10.1080/10926488.2021.1948332

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“…In prior studies, it was confirmed that metaphorical frames shape reasoning and thought and affect people's opinions and decisions by instantiating frame-consistent knowledge structures and inviting structurally consistent inferences (e.g., Charteris-Black, 2011;Thibodeau and Boroditsky, 2011, 2013, 2015Boeynaems et al, 2017;Hart, 2021;Benczes and Ságvári, 2022;Brugman et al, 2022;Tao et al, 2023). Landslide, as a natural disaster frame, is characterized by downward gestures at great velocity, severe mud and rock congestion in traffic, and bringing damage to areas nearby and underneath.…”

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The landslide’s conceptualizing economic decline and its framing effect: Mandarin evidence

Zhang,

Yang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Conceptual metaphors are essential for explaining and understanding social concerns. Natural disaster metaphors are commonly employed to access the abstract and negative impacts of social issues. Five of the top 10 most prevalent natural disaster frames in the Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL)—earthquake, flood, fire hazard, drought, typhoon, landslide, volcano, sandstorm, tsunami, and debris flow—share a common economic target domain and show economic recession. Additionally, corpus-based research has revealed that the landslide frame is the most salient in figuratively representing economic declines. An experimental study derived from the corpus analysis has found that the landslide-framed economic crises posed more severity to participants and exerted a notable influence on their opinions and judgments. Therefore, when effective communication of economic hazards is to be realized, metaphorical representation of economic crises demands great consideration.

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The landslide’s conceptualizing economic decline and its framing effect: Mandarin evidence

Zhang,

Yang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…To begin with, disease and disease metaphors have received scholarly treatments in various different languages: Of course, English is setting on the top most researched languages related to such phenomena (see for instance, Sontag, 1979 , 1989 ; Semino et al, 2004 , 2015 , 2018 ; Potts and Semino, 2019 ). Other investigated languages include: Spanish ( Landtsheer, 2009 ; Negro, 2016 ; Magaña and Matlock, 2018 ; Oster, 2019 ; Sabucedo et al, 2020 ), German ( Oster, 2019 ), Ukrainian ( Dilai and Serafin, 2019 ), French ( Perrez and Reuchamps, 2014 ; Negro, 2016 ), Dutch ( Perrez and Reuchamps, 2014 ), Italian ( Wehling, 2016 ), Persian ( Bakhtiar, 2017 ), Russian ( Pinelli, 2016 ), Greek ( Tsakona, 2012 ), Brazilian Portuguese ( Pelosi et al, 2014 ; Ribeiro et al, 2018 ), Arabic ( Zibin, 2020 ; Abaalalaa and Ibrahim, 2022 ; Zibin and Hamdan, 2023 ), Chinese ( Chiang and Duann, 2007 ), and several languages as in Olza et al (2021) , Brugman et al (2022) , and Pérez-Sobrino et al (2022) . Thus, one can say that disease metaphors have been investigated in several different languages.…”

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Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

Mobarki,

Alzahrani

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Sports fanaticism seems to be a social and national concern in Saudi Arabia. This paper aims: 1) to identify the metaphorical manifestations and highlight the discursive construction of disease as associated with sports fanaticism in a corpus of Saudi newspapers articles; and 2) to seek plausible explanations for the emergence and use of disease metaphors in newspapers articles addressing sports fanaticism. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Arabic Corpus (KACSTAC) served the data for the current study. The analytical procedures were informed by the discourse dynamics approach and metaphor-led discourse analysis. Findings show that sports fanaticism could be associated with the following systematic metaphors: 1) disease, in general; 2) disease causes; 3) disease symptoms; 4) disease evaluations; and 5) disease needs for medical solutions, interventions, treatments, and/or prescriptions. The discussion evokes a number of aspects: sports fanaticism emerges as a key topic; disease metaphors seem to be shaped and developed by the societal context and the nature of newspapers texts and discourse; they are enriched and influenced by the discourse situation and the needs to jointly construct and communicate intense experiences through specific evaluations and referential functions, which have a powerful resonance for the Saudi national and social levels; the use of disease metaphorical frames can structure our understanding and can simplify the concept of fanaticism.

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“…These studies have fully acknowledged that metaphor is “an eminent aspect of news discourse in which hidden opinions or ideologies may surface” ( Van Dijk, 1988, p. 177 ). Based on this assumption, scholars have conducted general cross-national or cross-linguistic comparisons of WAR metaphors (e.g., Brugman et al, 2022 ). Nonetheless, two aspects are still perceptibly underexplored.…”

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Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation

Liu

Tay

2023

Lingua

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Audience Perceptions of COVID-19 Metaphors: The Role of Source Domain and Country Context

Cited by 18 publications

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The landslide’s conceptualizing economic decline and its framing effect: Mandarin evidence

The landslide’s conceptualizing economic decline and its framing effect: Mandarin evidence

Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation

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