Media framing of fighting Covid-19 in China

Bibliographic Data

ID2249888
AuthorsLili Gui (0000-0002-5343-3761, School of Foreign Languages Nanjing Xiaozhuang University Nanjing China, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume43
Issue4
Pages966-970
Publication date2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13271
PMID33782963
OpenAlexW3142658499
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited18

This study focuses on media framings of COVID-19 in Chinese social and cultural contexts. After analysing nine weeks' news reports of Xinwen Lianbo, one of China's mainstream media, we discovered that the metaphorical war frame dominated throughout the corpus but it did not remain the same. Some of its semantic concepts like the type of war evolved over time. There are also several minor metaphors such as race, challenge, chess and combination blow metaphors, which are not as dominant as the war metaphor but should by no means be neglected. The race and challenge metaphors are complementary with the war metaphor to frame COVID-19, while the chess and combination blow metaphors are culturally loaded. What's more, literal frames like responsibility and collaboration were also found in the corpus. All frames, whether metaphorical or literal, work together to shape what COVID-19 was, what roles people should play and what people could do. In this study, we intend to explore how media framings of COVID-19 were related to media and government's responses as well as how they might have contributed to the public's responses. The media is an important source of information, whose role in public health emergencies deserves our attention

China · Conceptual metaphor · Content analysis · Frame analysis · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Mainstream · Media studies · Metaphor · News media · Political science · Social media · Social science · Sociology · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Media Influence and Health · Misinformation and Its Impacts

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