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Integrated metaphor description project - metaphors for COVID and the pandemic, and metaphors for global climate change.

Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...

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