COVID‐19 and the metaphor of war

COVID‐19 and the metaphor of war - Isaacs - Wiley Online Library

A war metaphor for COVID-19 may resonate with the public, may help people recognise the threat to public health, may help them take their obligations such as ...

Calling time on the use of war metaphors in covid-19 - The BMJ

The language used to describe the pandemic was that of an armed battle. Patients were “struck with illness,” and physicians were the “warriors deployed to the ...

COVID-19 and the metaphor of war - PubMed

COVID-19 and the metaphor of war. J Paediatr Child Health. 2021 Jan;57(1):6-8. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15164. Epub 2020 Oct 6. Authors. David Isaacs , Anne Priesz ...

COVID-19 and the metaphor of war. - APA PsycNet

Metaphors provide easy-to-understand explanations for threatening and unexpected events and can guide behaviour. Some groups have used the metaphor of war ...

“We are at war”: The military rhetoric of COVID-19 in cross-cultural ...

The war rhetoric includes the image of the Enemy. However, the Enemy is not only the virus, although this metaphor persists in the language of ...

Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID ...

Presumably, as the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic is highly unpredictable, the use of WAR metaphors in news reports is hypothesized to fluctuate randomly ...

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

Where in the context of cancer, the metaphor was that of an individual war, in the context of COVID-19, the prevalent talk was that of a ...

How We Escape Capture by the “War” Metaphor for Covid-19

We are easily trapped by dominant metaphors, though fresh metaphors may generate significant paradigm shifts. During the first months of the ...

Does the COVID-19 war metaphor influence reasoning? | PLOS ONE

In this paper, we investigate whether presenting the COVID-19 pandemic as a war affects people's reasoning about the pandemic.

War Metaphors (What Are They Good For?) - Sage Journals

During the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders and society at large invoked militarized rhetoric and war metaphors to elevate essential workers and ...

How We Escape Capture by the “War” Metaphor for Covid-19

In the early months of the pandemic, the “war” metaphor, standing for the human relationship to Covid-19, spread and established itself, ...

War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 - Frontiers

I show how political representatives have used the war metaphor for very different purposes in terms of crisis communication and management of the current ...

War Metaphors during the COVID-19 Pandemic | 5

War Metaphors during the COVID-19 Pandemic - 1 - Persuasion and Manipulation.

War metaphors used for COVID-19 are compelling but also dangerous

The war-time imagery is compelling. It identifies an enemy (the virus), a strategy (“flatten the curve,” but also “save the economy”), the front ...

War Metaphor and COVID-19: A SWOT Analysis - LinkedIn

Politicians, doctors, newscasters—you name it—are all using the words “war,” “fight,” “battle,” “win,” and “enemy” when talking about COVID-19 ...

An unhealthy combination: War, Covid-19 and the politics of metaphor

War metaphors are oblivious to the reality of armed conflict that, invariably, is a depraved, dehumanising, and soul-destroying affair.

The Universal Culture of COVID-19 as Provoked by the War Against ...

This study focused on the Arabic metaphors used during the different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., from the time the pandemic began to ...

War Metaphors and Pandemics - Why the COVID-19 Vaccine Is No ...

A war mentality on COVID-19 implies that as every battle requires weapons to fight the enemy, a vaccine is necessary in order to eliminate the ...

A Comparative Analysis of War Metaphors in COVID-19 Reports in ...

It was found that China Daily preferred using war metaphors in COVID-19 reports and war-related words such as “fight,” “combat,” and “battle.” ...

COVID-19 and the metaphor of war (COVID-19 y la metáfora de la ...

Some groups have used the metaphor of war in the current pandemic. However, this metaphor is inadvisable because it omits fundamental factors such as mutual ...