#covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India

Mohammed Khaliq, Rohan Joseph, Sunny Rai


Abstract
Metaphors are creative cognitive constructs that are employed in everyday conversation to describe abstract concepts and feelings. Prevalent conceptual metaphors such as WAR, MONSTER, and DARKNESS in COVID-19 online discourse sparked a multi-faceted debate over their efficacy in communication, resultant psychological impact on listeners, and their appropriateness in social discourse. In this work, we investigate metaphors used in discussions around COVID-19 on Indian Twitter. We observe subtle transitions in metaphorical mappings as the pandemic progressed. Our experiments, however, didn’t indicate any affective impact of WAR metaphors on the COVID-19 discourse.
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2021.icon-main.52
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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2021
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National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India
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Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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ICON
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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431–438
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Mohammed Khaliq, Rohan Joseph, and Sunny Rai. 2021. #covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 431–438, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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#covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India (Khaliq et al., ICON 2021)
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