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Metaphors of War in Journalistic Media Texts about the Pandemic

Abstract

Texts published in journalistic media become guides in a world-wide
topic. This paper focuses on the warlike conceptualization of COVID-19,
based on analogies founded on disorder, decadence and invasion, which in
their composition corroborate how the concepts on which these texts are built
reflect a way of looking society, replicate it, and install it in the human body.
Our reflection is grounded on selected metaphors from scientific journalism
texts published on the internet between March and September 2020, which
reformulate complex information to bring it closer to a broad and nonspecialized audience. We emphasize the possibilities offered by metaphorical
representations to see one concept in terms of another and, at the same time,
we draw attention to the repetitive use of warlike images in which ideas about
battles, weapons, defenses, and attacks prevail, showing how the discourse of
authority and control underlies and is installed in the metaphor that instills
fear.

Keywords

pandemic, war, metaphor, science journalism

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Author Biography

Mireya Cisneros Estupiñan

Últimas publicaciones:

- Muñoz-Dagua, C., Andrade-Calderón, M. C., & Cisneros-Estupiñán, M. (2015). Los indicios de la actitud en las interacciones orales en el aula universitaria. Folios, (42), 127-138.

- Olave-Arias, G., Rojas-García, I., Cisneros-Estupiñán, M. (2013). Deserción universitaria y alfabetización académica. Educación y educadores16(3), 55-471.

- Cisneros Estupiñán, M. & Pasuy Guerrero, G. Y. (2013). La narrativa conversacional como mecanismo de liderazgo y cohesión social. Poliantea, 7(13), 45-58.

Clarena Muñoz Dagua, CMD

Doctora en Lingüística de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Profesora de la Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia. Autora de libros y artículos publicados en revistas nacionales e internacionales. Grupo Estudios del Lenguaje y la Educación, Categoría A1 de Minciencias.


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