Published: 2021-11-18

Cognitive analysis of speech events containing information on the SARS-COV 2 coronavirus and on the COVID-19 disease

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to perform a brief cognitive analysis of speech events containing information about the coronavirus SARS-COV 2 and the disease its causes, COVID-19. As the author acknowledges primacy of cognitive linguistics research tools towards explanation of how language is used and how the extralinguistic reality is perceived, the object of research comprises M Johnson and G. Lakoff’s conceptual metaphors, which are to be extracted among seven chosen articles derived from the digital version of the Italian journal La Stampa. The results of such performed research should deliver a list of structural, ontological and orientative metaphors, which, in this context, are not just pure eristic speech figures but mental constructs which indicate people’s way of reasoning and of conceptualizing the surrounding extralinguistic world, in this case the pandemic situation affecting us all.

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Wylecioł, R. (2021). Cognitive analysis of speech events containing information on the SARS-COV 2 coronavirus and on the COVID-19 disease. Neophilologica, 33, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.31261/NEO.2021.33.01

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Vol. 33 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-31


ISSN: 0208-5550
eISSN: 2353-088X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/NEO

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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