Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Communicating the pandemic 1
4. Metaphor in mainstream newspapers
5. Chapter 1 How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic? 10
6. Chapter 2 Metaphors in Hausa newspapers about fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria 40
7. Chapter 3 Social variation in metaphors 63
8. Metaphor in interlocution
9. Chapter 4 Virus is death, virus is life 84
10. Chapter 5 The voice of the virus or the virus’s shadow? 122
11. War metaphor and alternatives
12. Chapter 6 Out of the fires and into the pandemic 152
13. Chapter 7 Divergent conceptualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its management as a war in Britain and Germany 170
14. Metaphor in governance discourse
15. Chapter 8 Communicating socio-psychological meanings 190
16. Chapter 9 The role of state rhetoric in the conceptualization of the COVID-19 pandemic 216
17. Metaphor and metonymy in the multimodal dimension
18. Chapter 10 Standing together by standing apart 248
19. Chapter 11 Metaphorical and metonymic constructions in co-speech gestures about the COVID-19 pandemic 272
20. Chapter 12 Visual metaphors in news cartoons on covid-19 in China 301
21. Chapter 13 The Czech Coronasong 318
22. Index 343