War metaphors in public discourse

Waging War on War Metaphors in Cancer and COVID-19

In spite of their appeal, however, it is not clear that war metaphors are beneficial. Wars have winners and losers, and in war, the winner ...

Metaphors and pseudometaphors of language as controversial ...

As convergent evidence for pseudo-metaphoricity of the language-war/violence metaphors and their potential for instigating inter-ethnic conflict ...

Leadership style by metaphor in crisis political discourse - De Gruyter

Ideologically, the CONTAINER metaphor can serve the purpose of diminishing the overall effect of the WAR metaphor, by ascertaining the idea of ...

War of Words: The Impact of Dehumanizing Military Metaphors on ...

This capstone project investigates the use of dehumanizing military metaphors in U.S. political speeches and media discourse following the September 11, ...

Pandemic Metaphors – PIRC - Public Interest Research Centre

There are many metaphors flying around, but two of the most widely used at the moment are war and crime. Below we examine the implication of these prominent ...

A Large-Scale Topic-Agnostic Study Using Neural Metaphor Detection

While the efficacy of specific metaphors such as the war metaphor in political discourse ... public pages, up until Feb 2017. Our ...

The 'Invisible Enemy': A Critical Look at the Use of Military ...

Further, military metaphors might prove counter-productive in the long-term, either by inducing a public feeling of battle fatigue as we await a ...

Metaphors we Lie by: our 'War' against COVID-19 - IRIS UPO

During the pandemic, the use of the war metaphor became a topic of discussion in the public arena. Our initial curiosity was prompted by a claim ...

Shaping Public Discourse Through Metaphor, Hyperbole, and Irony

Keywords: Framing, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Irony, Figurative Language, Public Discourse, ... itics using metaphorical language to refer to either sports or war. This ...

“World-beating” pandemic responses: Ironical, sarcastic, and ...

Our paper focuses on such cases of “metaphor reversal” within the context of the British public debate. Drawing on examples from a corpus of media texts, we ...

The impact of war-metaphors and other science-religion - OSF

The discussion concludes with recommendations on a more reflective and aware use of narratives in public discourse applicable to communication ...

Metaphors we Lie by: our 'War' against COVID-19 - OUCI

(2016). Figurative framing: Shaping public discourse through metaphor, hyperbole, and irony. ... War metaphors in public discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(1), 1– ...

War metaphors for cancer hurt certain prevention behaviors

... public discourse about the disease. "Fight and battle are actually among the top 10 verbs used to describe cancer," Hauser said. "Constant ...

Fighting a disease with metaphors - MetNet Scandinavia

The war metaphor is so pervasive in public discourse, that according to one study, 17% of all articles in Time Magazine, published between 1981 ...

What 'Corona War' Metaphor Means in Iranian Political Discourse

The main metaphorical representation of coronavirus was framing public cooperation and national solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic as participating in a ...

Which War are we Fighting? Societal Impact of Different COVID-19 ...

We gathered data from official government public health websites, searching for metaphors used in popular medical discourse and relating ...

The Allure of the War Metaphor in Philippine Presidential Speeches

metaphors in public discourse argue that war metaphors are omnipresent ... War Rhetoric in Philippine Political Discourse. The use of war metaphors is ...

Metaphor, Metonymy and Framing in Discourse (Chapter 10)

For example, the conventional conceptual metaphor argument is war highlights the competitive, antagonistic aspect of arguments and hides their potential ...

Translating conflict metaphor in political discourse of China

colonialist and anti-imperialist ideologies in his discourse of resistance. War metaphors are also ubiquitous in today's public discourse in China (Yuan 2004;.

When the Going Gets Tough, Leaders Use Metaphors and Storytelling

In the “Gettysburg Address” (delivered on 19 November 1863, the most celebrated speech considered one of the best speeches of all time) (Raj 2020), he ...