Keywords
COVID-19
conceptual metaphor
conceptual metonymy
social networks
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Abstract
In the last decades, studies on metaphor and metonymy have increased. These phe-nomena have been understood not as style resources, but as conceptual mechanisms. Lakoff and Johnson’s book (1980) triggered this novel conception of metaphor and all the subsequent theoretical developments. One of the paths that these inquiries have travelled is the analysis of various metaphors in corpora belonging to different discourse genres. In this paper, some metaphors and metonymies on the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine situation are studied; they were taken from texts published in the social networks. This paper analyses different metaphors and metonyms that project the domains of soccer, religion, war, navigation and computing, among others. Also, different types of personification are explored.
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