Metaphorical Traits of the Language of the Covid-19 Pandemic
A Short-Term Diachronic Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8862074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ljubica Leone (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2026.2615904 |
| OpenAlex | W7128427499 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Metaphor · Semantics (computer science · Variation (astronomy · Varieties of English · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Metaphors We Live By
Risk Perception and Covid-19
Framing Covid-19
Public Mental Health Crisis during Covid-19 Pandemic, China
Politics, Ideology, and Discourse
Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted
Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Individuals’ conceptions of Covid-19 pandemic through metaphor analysis
“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19
Pandemics, tourism and global change
Discursive metaphorical frames in newspaper texts on language change
Metaphor and the Social World
The #ReframeCovid initiative
The function of metaphor framing, deliberate or otherwise, in a social world
Mip
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic
Cancer as a Metaphor
War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid
CQPweb — combining power, flexibility and usability in a corpus analysis tool
Language and Covid-19
Covid-19 risk perception
Conceptual metaphors for Sars
Covid-19 and ‘the public
Principles of Linguistic Change
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |