Coronavirus–inspired Metaphors in Political Discourse
In the face of the great danger posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, political leaders worldwide, speaking from a position of authority, delivered carefully crafted televised speeches and press conferences, intended to inform the public about the pandemic, its implications and the preventive restrict...
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doaj-ed10878c91ce46f4b628439ba953321a2021-02-24T21:36:26ZengAAB College, PristinaThesis 1848-42982623-83812020-12-019299132Coronavirus–inspired Metaphors in Political Discourse Silvana Neshkovska 0Zorica Trajkova1St. Kliment Ohridski University, Bitola, North MacedoniaSs. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia In the face of the great danger posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, political leaders worldwide, speaking from a position of authority, delivered carefully crafted televised speeches and press conferences, intended to inform the public about the pandemic, its implications and the preventive restrictions they were imposing. The main objective of this paper is to investigate how politicians used language, particularly metaphors, when talking about and interpreting the newly created situation with the Covid-19 pandemic. For the purposes of this study a corpus was compiled of coronavirus-related speeches delivered by several key world political figures – Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, and Emanuel Macron. The speeches were delivered on a timeline from March to May 2020, i.e. the period that saw the inception, the peak and the gradual withdrawal of the first ‘wave’ of the coronavirus in Europe and the United States. A contrastive analysis of the speeches was carried out in order to detect similarities and differences in the use of metaphors on the part of the politicians, at the three specific time points of the pandemic’s trajectory.https://thesis-journal.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5.-Neshkovska-S.-Trajkova-Z-2020.pdfcovid-19politiciansspeechesmetaphorspersuasive effect |
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Coronavirus–inspired Metaphors in Political Discourse |
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In the face of the great danger posed by the Covid-19 pandemic,
political leaders worldwide, speaking from a position of
authority, delivered carefully crafted televised speeches and
press conferences, intended to inform the public about the
pandemic, its implications and the preventive restrictions they
were imposing. The main objective of this paper is to investigate
how politicians used language, particularly metaphors, when
talking about and interpreting the newly created situation with
the Covid-19 pandemic. For the purposes of this study a corpus
was compiled of coronavirus-related speeches delivered by
several key world political figures – Boris Johnson, Donald
Trump, Angela Merkel, and Emanuel Macron. The speeches
were delivered on a timeline from March to May 2020, i.e. the
period that saw the inception, the peak and the gradual
withdrawal of the first ‘wave’ of the coronavirus in Europe and
the United States. A contrastive analysis of the speeches was
carried out in order to detect similarities and differences in the
use of metaphors on the part of the politicians, at the three
specific time points of the pandemic’s trajectory. |
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covid-19 politicians speeches metaphors persuasive effect |
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