ArticleHistory and philosophy of the life sciences2022
Metaphors we Lie by: our 'War' against COVID-19.
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- Death Unpreparedness Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Concept Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Metaphorical framing of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: A corpus driven critical analysis of war metaphors in news media.PloS one · 2024Article
- Freedom and Anxiety: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Super-ego in the Postmodern Era.Trends in psychology · 2023Article
- Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation.Lingua. International review of general linguistics. Revue internationale de linguistique generale · 2023Article
- Exploring pandemic metaphors in educational contexts: a survey on the language of teachers and educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 crisis management of German ICU clinicians in leadership - a metaphor analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- "We are at war": The military rhetoric of COVID-19 in cross-cultural perspective of discourses.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2023Article
- Commentary: How to have agency in a pandemic.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2023Article
- Bibliometric, network, and thematic mapping analyses of metaphor and discourse in COVID-19 publications from 2020 to 2022.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Understanding Men's Lived Experience of Mental Distress Through Metaphors.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
In this paper we discuss the influence of war as a metaphor in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After an introduction on the traditional analysis of the war metaphor, we address the social consequences of using this metaphor, a topic that has been widely debated with regard to public communication in the context of COVID-19. We pay particular attention to a theory that many intellectuals have raised: the possibility that the use of the metaphor in this context is harmful to a democratic society because it may lead citizens to accept limited civil liberties and authoritarian policies. After presenting the extensive literature on the use of the war metaphor before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the final section of the paper, we analyse experimental evidence of the effects of this metaphor. In the conclusion, we hint at open questions and suggest that the current evidence does not support claims of direct liberticidal influence.
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