@inbook{b7f702e14919432db7d49a143a55603d,
title = "How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic?: Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers",
abstract = "The contribution presents a study on figurative language from the first months of the COVID-19 crisis in Italian online newspapers. Particularly, we contrast topics and metaphorical language used by journalists in the first and second phases of the government response to the pandemic in Spring 2020. The analysis is conducted on a journalistic corpus collected between February 24th and June 3rd, 2020, and is performed using both quantitative and qualitative approaches: Structural Topic Modelling (Roberts et al., 2016); Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff \& Johnson, 1980); and qualitative-corpus based metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004). We find a significant shift in topics discussed across Phase 1 and Phase 2, and interesting overlaps in topic-specific metaphors. Using qualitative corpus analysis, we further discuss metaphorical collocations of the topics of Economy and Society.",
author = "Lucia Busso and Ottavia Tordini",
year = "2025",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1075/milcc.11.01bus",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027228253 (hbk)",
series = "Metaphor in Language, Cognition and Communication",
publisher = "John Benjamins",
number = "11",
pages = "10--39",
editor = "Xu Wen and Wei-lun Lu and Joe Lennon and K{\"o}vecses , \{Zolt{\'a}n \}",
booktitle = "COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures",
address = "Netherlands",
}