36.3388, Books: COVID-19: Wen, Lu, Lennon, and Kövecses (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 05-Nov-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: COVID-19: Wen, Lu, Lennon, and Kövecses (eds.) (2025)


Title: COVID-19
Subtitle: Metaphor and Metonymy Across Languages and Cultures
Series Title: Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication   11
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/milcc.11

Editor(s): Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon, Zoltán Kövecses

eBook ISBN:  9789027244598 Pages:  350 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244598 Pages:  350 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244598 Pages:  350 Price: U.S. $ 163.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228253 Pages:  350 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228253 Pages:  350 Price: Europe EURO 132.50
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228253 Pages:  350 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228253 Pages:  350 Price: U.S. $ 163.00

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and
political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This
volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive
Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to
reveal correspondences and contrasts between different cultures’
conceptions of the illness and its aftermath. The contributions
examine a variety of genres, including newspaper articles, storefront
signs, artistic creations, personal interviews, social media comments,
and political speeches. They look at communication in various
domains—business, media, politics, economics, art, and psychiatry. And
they compare past and present, showing how the modern pandemic both
continued and interrupted previous patterns of discourse around
illness and disease. These diverse analyses show how Cognitive
Linguistics, on the cutting edge of quantitative, sociocultural, and
interdisciplinary turns in linguistics, can be a powerful theoretical
tool in uncovering parallels and variations in how different cultures
communicate in times of crisis.

Written In: English (eng)



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