“Our Country Is a Freedom-Loving Country”: The Spreading Virus as Metaphor for “People on the Move”

IF 2.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2021.1954858
D. Gurnham
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ABSTRACT Although Covid-19 has been framed using all manner of metaphors, an as-yet under-examined question is how the spreading virus might itself serve as a metaphor and what purpose this might serve. The article redresses this deficit by identifying shared experiences of the mobile virus as the basis for a metaphorical framework for evaluating and judging human behavior, including alleged rule-breaking, during the pandemic. The article traces the appearance of the metaphor spreading across a broad spectrum of sources that includes political speech, the reporting of crime in prosecutorial and local media sources, judicial opinion and poetry. We observe in some limited contexts a straightforward metaphoric transfer or substitution between mobile people and the mobile virus. In a greater number and variety contexts, we find instead more subtle signs of the metaphor: the censuring of bad behavior and the justifying of coercive treatment using the metonymic elements of viral spread: its characteristic unpredictability, speed, agility, irrepressibility, and relentlessness.
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“我们的国家是一个热爱自由的国家”:用病毒传播比喻“人们在流动”
尽管人们用各种各样的隐喻来描述Covid-19,但一个尚未得到充分研究的问题是,这种正在传播的病毒本身是如何充当隐喻的,以及这可能起到什么作用。这篇文章纠正了这一缺陷,将移动病毒的共同经历确定为评估和判断大流行期间人类行为(包括所谓的违规行为)的隐喻框架的基础。这篇文章追溯了这个隐喻在广泛来源中的出现,包括政治言论、检察和地方媒体对犯罪的报道、司法意见和诗歌。我们观察到,在一些有限的情况下,流动的人和流动的病毒之间存在直接的隐喻性转移或替代。在更多种类的语境中,我们发现了更多微妙的隐喻:对不良行为的谴责和使用病毒传播的转喻元素为强制治疗辩护:其特点是不可预测性、速度、敏捷性、不可抑止性和无情。
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期刊介绍: Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.
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