COVID-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages

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Metaphor and Symbol 37 (2):152-170 (2022)
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This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s...

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10.1080/10926488.2021.1994839

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