Abstract

CISNEROS-ESTUPINAN, Mireya  and  MUNOZ-DAGUA, Clarena. Metaphors of War in Journalistic Media Texts about the Pandemic. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2021, n.38, pp.1-15.  Epub Mar 03, 2022. ISSN 0121-053X.  https://doi.org/10.19053/0121053x.n38.2021.13117.

Texts published in journalistic media become guides in a world-wide topic. This paper focuses on the warlike conceptualization of COVID-19, based on analogies founded on disorder, decadence and invasion, which in their composition corroborate how the concepts on which these texts are built reflect a way of looking society, replicate it, and install it in the human body. Our reflection is grounded on selected metaphors from scientific journalism texts published on the internet between March and September 2020, which reformulate complex information to bring it closer to a broad and non-specialized audience. We emphasize the possibilities offered by metaphorical representations to see one concept in terms of another and, at the same time, we draw attention to the repetitive use of warlike images in which ideas about battles, weapons, defenses, and attacks prevail, showing how the discourse of authority and control underlies and is installed in the metaphor that instills fear.

Keywords : pandemic; war; metaphor; science journalism; virus.

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