War Metaphors

War metaphors are used to manage a perceived societal problem, with the concept taking the place of an individual or state enemy in true war.

List of War Metaphors

Here's a short list of metaphors borne from war terms. It is arranged as: We're sure to add more as we bump into them.

Category:Metaphors referring to war and violence - Wikipedia

B · Bad apples · Bellum omnium contra omnes · Bite the bullet. C. Cadmean victory · Cannon fodder · Carthaginian peace · Catch-22 ...

War Metaphors, Argument, and the Quest for Truth - CiRCE Institute

Think of what this metaphor entails: when we view argument as a quest for truth, our goal becomes not to win, or to be right, but to find Truth ...

War Metaphor—what Is It Good for? - Minerva Strategies

What I find most troubling, however, is that using a war metaphor to describe anything that isn't a war bolsters the belief that adversarial relationships, ...

What's with all the war metaphors? We have wars when politics fails

The only metaphor used to talk about politics is violence and war. It is one of the truisms of journalism that conflict is newsworthy.

(PDF) War metaphors in public discourse - ResearchGate

Abstract and Figures · consequences. · framed metaphorically as a disease or in terms of war (or both, as in the headline, “Opioid · ways of expressing how drug ...

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 ...

Why We Need to Stop Using War Metaphors | by Rob Huckins

Why We Need to Stop Using War Metaphors by Rob Huckins. Rob Huckins Chasing Jade Rob Huckins Follow Published in Chasing Jade 7 min read May 12, 2016

War Metaphors and the Return to Campus - Inside Higher Ed

The piece revolves around an unhappy recognition that every possible solution to the question of returning to campus is unsatisfactory, in both practical and ...

Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors - The Guardian

The overuse of phrases such as the declaration of "war", the launch of "battles", "fights", "offensives" or "rearguard actions", and a fire of "warning shots" ...

“It's a war! It's a battle! It's a fight!”: Do militaristic metaphors increase ...

The metaphor of war is associated with people ascribing greater responsibility to their governments, whereas the concept of struggle triggers a sense of ...

A Cognitive Study of War Metaphors in Five Main Areas of Everyday ...

Metaphors lie at the heart of language itself. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue that the pervasion of metaphor is both in thought and everyday language.

Fighting an illness, losing a battle: Do war metaphors impact patient ...

The usefulness of war as a metaphor has been called into question by the same community – patients, oncologists, and researchers alike.

The Rise Of The War Metaphor In Public Policy - Hoover Institution

Roosevelt turned toward the war metaphor because of the deep-seated emergency of the Great Depression and the American people's clamor for, as Roosevelt put it ...

War metaphors in public discourse - Taylor & Francis Online

The specific meaning of a war metaphor and its entailments depend on the context in which it is used. Contrast, for example, the War on Drugs ...

Why Do We Use War Metaphors to Talk About Teaching? - ASCD

War metaphors are the easiest shorthand we have for the grind of teaching. Working in education is often more exhausting and less rewarding than it should be.

Waging War on War Metaphors in Cancer and COVID-19

War metaphors have steadily made their way into the lexicon of oncology practice. Research has reported that metaphors are present in as many as two thirds of ...

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 ...

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 ...