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Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic

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Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic

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dc.contributor.author Cuenca Ordiñana, Maria Josep
dc.contributor.author Manuela Romano
dc.date.accessioned 2023-11-16T11:44:50Z
dc.date.available 2023-11-16T11:44:50Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10550/91210
dc.description.abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the life of every inhabitant of the planet. During 2020 and 2021 a significant amount of work on how the pandemic is being conceptualized and communicated has been done. Most work has focused on the role of metaphor in the construal of specific cognitive frames. In this paper, we turn to a similar but different conceptualization mechanism, i.e. simile. Drawing from recent socio-cognitive and discursive empirical approaches to similes, this paper focuses on 'TARGET is like SOURCE' constructions in English and Spanish containing (CORONA)VIRUS either as target or source of the simile. The analysis is based on 200 examples found in the digital media during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. First, the constructions, conceptualizations and mappings are analyzed. Second, the relevant discourse features (genre type, relation to subjectivity, text location and structuring properties) are described. Finally, the cross-linguistic English-Spanish analysis shows that, despite the many coincidences in both datasets, there are different tendencies as for the use of culture-specific mappings and the genres where the similes occur in. The study aims at testing to what extent the general features characterizing similes also hold in the case of (CORONA)VIRUS, both as source and as target. The corpus analysis contributes, in addition, to the emerging line of research on the use of figuration in the communication of the pandemic, as well as to the study of the discursive dimensions of similes in real settings.
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dc.relation.ispartof Metaphor And Symbol, 2022, vol. 37, num. 4, p. 269-286
dc.source Cuenca Ordiñana, Maria Josep Manuela Romano 2022 Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic Metaphor And Symbol 37 4 269 286. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2021.1998902
dc.subject lingüística
dc.subject anàlisi del discurs
dc.subject anglès
dc.title Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic
dc.type journal article
dc.date.updated 2023-11-16T11:44:50Z
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/10926488.2021.1998902
dc.identifier.idgrec 155787
dc.rights.accessRights open access

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