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In:COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication 11] 2025
► pp. 1–8

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Communicating the pandemic

Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities

 | Masaryk University
 | Masaryk University
 | Southwest University
 | Eötvös Loránd University
Published online: 6 October 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.11.00len
Article outline
  • 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
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