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Use of Offensive Animal Metaphor as an Interactional Activity in Online Forum Discussions.

This paper investigates offensive animal metaphors in blog comments about the management of donations of money and medical relief during the coronavirus pandemic in China. Rather than understanding the metaphorical usage of language as a cognitive process, we consider its situational usage as a soci...

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Published in:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 281 - 296
Main Authors: Jin, Ying, Tay, Dennis
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct-Dec2024
Subjects:
Online comments
Conversation analysis
COVID-19 pandemic
Social action
Internet forums
Financial management
Intelligibility of speech
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