“Our Country Is a Freedom-Loving Country”: The Spreading Virus as Metaphor for “People on the Move”
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چکیده
Although Covid-19 has been framed using all manner of metaphors, an as-yet under-examined question is how the spreading virus might itself serve as a metaphor and what purpose this serve. The article redresses deficit by identifying shared experiences mobile basis for metaphorical framework evaluating judging human behavior, including alleged rule-breaking, during pandemic. traces appearance across broad spectrum sources that includes political speech, reporting crime in prosecutorial local media sources, judicial opinion poetry. We observe some limited contexts straightforward metaphoric transfer or substitution between people virus. In greater number variety contexts, we find instead more subtle signs metaphor: censuring bad behavior justifying coercive treatment metonymic elements viral spread: its characteristic unpredictability, speed, agility, irrepressibility, relentlessness.
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عنوان ژورنال: Metaphor and Symbol
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1532-7868', '1092-6488']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2021.1954858