Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse?

by Jonathan Charteris-Black

This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis. The author offers insights into the metaphors, metonyms, allegories and symbols of the global crisis and examines how they have contributed to policy formation and communication. Combining metaphor theory with moral foundations theory, he places metaphors in their historical contexts, and then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030851052
• ISBN13: 9783030851057
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"