Military metaphors in the discourses of the pandemic in two post-Yugoslav states
Ksenija Bogetić
Abstract:The present study contributes to the growing body of work on the pandemic-time use of the war metaphor in
public discourse, by focusing specifically on military metaphors in the media discourses of two post-Yugoslav, post-conflict
states. Using the approach of Critical Metaphor Analysis, the paper explores the discursive realizations of the war
metaphor in this context, with a particular focus on metaphor extension, metaphor entailments, and effects of earlier conflict
memory on discursive … Show more
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