‘Waves’ and ‘flashes’ of the pandemic: How COVID-19 metaphors in Russian media influence reasoning
In this study, we examined how metaphors used in the Russian media to describe the COVID-19 virus affect the audience’s judgment about the virus and their willingness to take a vaccine. We found that the two conventional metaphors used to describe the dynamics of the spread of the coronavirus (‘wave...
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Lomonosov Moscow State University. Faculty of Journalism
2022-06-01
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| Series: | World of Media |
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| Online Access: | http://worldofmedia.ru/volumes/2022/2022_Issue_2/World%20of%20Media_2-2022-13-27.pdf |