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- Title
Political framing of Covid-19: From metaphor to moral panic.
- Authors
Mohammadi, Ariana N
- Abstract
The present study is a corpus-based discourse analysis of the metaphorical framing of Covid-19 in American political discourse. Drawing on data from a corpus of the White House briefings and statements, the study investigates the corpus profile of war and virus and illustrates how the Coronavirus is primarily represented as an enemy to go to war with, rather than a public health crisis to control and mitigate. The study further situates the militaristic framing of Covid-19 within the theoretical framework of moral panic and examines the discursive features that ultimately bridge the metaphorical representation of the pandemic and the construction of moral panic. The study points to nuanced discourse strategies used in the White House press briefings that reconstruct the enemy and regroup the Coronavirus with other so-called enemies of the United States, such as the Communists, as well as the Islamic radicals and the Latin gangs and cartels.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Executive Office of the President; COVID-19; DISCOURSE analysis; MORAL panics; PRESS conferences; CORONAVIRUSES; METAPHOR; ZIKA Virus Epidemic, 2015-2016
- Publication
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2024, Vol 29, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
1384-6655
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijcl.22087.moh