Not for those of us who know war well: crisis, metaphor negotiation and collective memory in an era of war.

The use of war metaphors in COVID–19 crisis communication has prompted great metalinguistic attention and highlighted the role of conflict memory in crisis discourse. Still, discourses of collective memory are to date rarely integrated with the study of metaphor and crisis communication, though freq...

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Publicado en:Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 56 - 75
Autor principal: Bogetić, Ksenija
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2026
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          Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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        COVID-19
        Crisis communication
        Peacebuilding
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