This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence
by
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Loughborough University
In speeches, commentaries and conversations about the coronavirus pandemic, we keep hearing war-like metaphors being deployed. It happens explicitly (‘we are at war’, ‘blitz spirit’, ‘war cabinet’) and implicitly (‘threat’, ‘invisible enemy’, ‘frontline’, ‘duty’).
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