War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19
Although militaristic metaphors have been pervasive during health crisis in political and science communication, few works have examined how these linguistic devices may influence crisis communication. Drawing on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and on crisis communication literature, I show how po...
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description | Although militaristic metaphors have been pervasive during health crisis in political and science communication, few works have examined how these linguistic devices may influence crisis communication. Drawing on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and on crisis communication literature, I show how political representatives have used the war metaphor for very different purposes in terms of crisis communication and management of the current Covid-19 pandemic. I suggest that these findings challenge previous criticisms of the war metaphor as inherently negative and damaging. Finally, I discuss possibilities of using CDA, and specifically, metaphor analysis to inform and expand crisis communication. |
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spelling | pubmed-80225962021-04-15 War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 Castro Seixas, Eunice Front Sociol Sociology Although militaristic metaphors have been pervasive during health crisis in political and science communication, few works have examined how these linguistic devices may influence crisis communication. Drawing on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and on crisis communication literature, I show how political representatives have used the war metaphor for very different purposes in terms of crisis communication and management of the current Covid-19 pandemic. I suggest that these findings challenge previous criticisms of the war metaphor as inherently negative and damaging. Finally, I discuss possibilities of using CDA, and specifically, metaphor analysis to inform and expand crisis communication. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8022596/ /pubmed/33869509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.583680 Text en Copyright © 2021 Castro Seixas. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Castro Seixas, Eunice War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title | War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title_full | War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title_fullStr | War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title_short | War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19 |
title_sort | war metaphors in political communication on covid-19 |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.583680 |
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