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Pest, Not Enemy: Metaphor in COVID-19 News Reports in Indonesian Newspapers

Authors
Aris Munandar1, *
1Department of Intercultural Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: arismunandar@ugm.ac.id
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Aris Munandar
Available Online 31 December 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-348-1_19How to use a DOI?
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic; conceptual metaphor; cultural background; mass media
Abstract

War metaphor is frequently used in the communication about COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, but it is considered inapropriate because it presents a disproportionate picture of COVID-19 pandemic. This research attempts to identify conceptual metaphors in COVID-19 pandemic news report in the Indonesian national news media: Liputan 6 and BBC News Indonesia during the year 2021. Liputan 6 reports domestic news, while BBC News Indonesia relays news from international news agencies. The analysis applies Kovecses’s Conceptual Metaphor and Van Dijk’s Discourse Analysis. The results reveal different forms of metaphors in the two media. The domestic news report about COVID-19 pandemic tends to use metaphors related to the local cultural background of Indonesia as an agricultural and archipelagic country: farming and sea. It concludes that Indonesian society tend to perceive COVID-19 pandemic as pest that needs to be controled rather than an enemy to be destroyed in war.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th Celt International Conference (CIC 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2024
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978-2-38476-348-1
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-348-1_19How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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