SomayehSomayeh Hatamzadeh; Reza Kazemian
Abstract
Conceptual metaphors play a pivotal role in understanding different aspects of life. One of these aspects is illness which remained a rich area of investigation in Persian. Current study took a cognitive-corpus approach and adopted the conceptual metaphor model (Lakoff & Johnson,1980; Kövecses, ...
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Conceptual metaphors play a pivotal role in understanding different aspects of life. One of these aspects is illness which remained a rich area of investigation in Persian. Current study took a cognitive-corpus approach and adopted the conceptual metaphor model (Lakoff & Johnson,1980; Kövecses, 2005) to examine Corona-related metaphors. The case studies comprised Persian press reports describing Corona-related news taken from newspaper websites over the period spanning almost the three months since the first Corona Virus case was reported in Iran. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were done examining the frequency and metaphoric statements related to COVID-19. 176 metaphoric statements with 8 main mappings (war, human, journey, natural force, wild animal, game, tool, and fire) were identified. The findings showed that “war metaphor” is the most frequent one with almost 60 percent of all metaphor occurrences. The results of the study also verified the direct connection between culture and illness metaphors.
