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. v–vi
Published online: 6 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.11.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.11.toc
Table of contents
Communicating the pandemic: Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities1
Joe Lennon
Wei-lun Lu
Xu Wen
Zoltan Kövecses
Metaphor in mainstream newspapers
Chapter 1.How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic? Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers10
Lucia Busso
Ottavia Tordini
Chapter 2.Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19
in Nigeria40
in Nigeria40
Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa
Xu Wen
Chapter 3.Social variation in metaphors: Preferred metaphors by occupation in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan63
Tetsuta Komatsubara
Metaphor in interlocution
Chapter 4.Virus is death, virus is life84
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Piotr Pęzik
Chapter 5.The voice of the virus or the virus’s shadow? A psycho‑metaphorical survey122
Federica Ferrari
War metaphor and alternatives
Chapter 6.Out of the fires and into the pandemic: How an unprecedented bushfire season provided a metaphor for COVID-19 in Australia152
Karen Sullivan
Chapter 7.Divergent conceptualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic
and its management as a war in Britain and Germany170
and its management as a war in Britain and Germany170
Andreas Musolff
Metaphor in governance discourse
Chapter 8.Communicating socio-psychological meanings: Metaphors in Hong Kong press conferences on measures against COVID-19190
Molly Xie Pan
Dennis Tay
Chapter 9.The role of state rhetoric in the conceptualization
of the COVID-19 pandemic: Ukraine vs. Belarus216
of the COVID-19 pandemic: Ukraine vs. Belarus216
Svitlana Shurma
Alla Golovnia
Metaphor and metonymy in the multimodal dimension
Chapter 10.Standing together by standing apart: Distance, safety, and fictive deixis in COVID-19 storefront communication248
Barbara Dancygier
Danielle Lee
Adrian Lou
Kevin Wong
Chapter 11.Metaphorical and metonymic constructions in co-speech
gestures about the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Handling’ the crisis in Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s terms272
gestures about the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Handling’ the crisis in Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s terms272
Ulrike Schröder
Anna Ladilova
Thiago da Cunha Nascimento
Chapter 12.Visual metaphors in news cartoons on COVID-19 in China301
Xu Wen
Shanfan Chen
Chapter 13.The Czech Coronasong: A multimodal perspective318
Šárka Havlíčková Kysová
Wei-lun Lu
Index
