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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. 272–300

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Chapter 11
Metaphorical and metonymic constructions in co-speech gestures about the COVID-19 pandemic

‘Handling’ the crisis in Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s terms

 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
 | Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen
 | Universidade Federal de Lavras
Published online: 6 October 2025
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy in discourse about diseases
  • 3.Gesture in cognitive approaches to interactional discourse and its methodological framework
    • 3.1Gesture form
    • 3.2Gesture classification and identification
  • 4.Analysis
    • 4.1Jair Bolsonaro’s co-speech gestural construction of COVID-19
    • 4.2Donald Trump’s co-speech gestural construction of COVID-19
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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