ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 5

The cognitive metaphorization of the concept “corona virus” in english, spanish and Uzbek Publicistic discourse

  • Author:
  • Nasrullayeva Nafisa Zafarovna1, Tkachyova Anastasiya Aleksandrovna2, Ulugova Shohida Shohruhovna3
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 996 to 1001

1Professor Doctor of Philological Sciences, Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan

2Candidate of Philological Sciences, Docent of Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan

3Doctoral Student, Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan

Online published on 30 June, 2020.

Abstract

The present article is devoted to linguistic investigation of metaphor formation process of the-concept “coronavirus” in the English, Spanish and Uzbek publicistic discourse. The authors give-examples of metaphors in the analyzed languages, which characterize this infection, dangerous for the whole world.

Keywords

Coronavirus, Pandemia, Infection, Metaphor, Concept, Publicistic Text, Social Network, Global problem