Alkhammash Reem
English Department, University College-Taraba, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 16;13:1062943. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1062943. eCollection 2022.
The research contributions of metaphor as part of (critical) discourse studies have flourished during COVID-19; hence, it is necessary to consider their progress and foresee their future growth. To obtain a comprehensive understanding of COVID metaphor research in discourse and to identify the most recent research foci, bibliometric, network, thematic mapping and word cloud analyses were conducted in this study. The results showed that (1) research on COVID metaphors is largely shaped by Critical Discourse Analysis research approaches and methodologies; (2) the research production has investigated traditional genres such as news and emerging genres, including social media and multimodal data; and (3) research highlights the role played by metaphors in persuasion in public discourse. The findings of this study can assist future research in this or related fields by providing an overview of metaphor research in crisis communication.
作为（批判性）话语研究一部分的隐喻的研究贡献在新冠疫情期间蓬勃发展；因此，有必要审视其进展并预见其未来的发展。为全面了解话语中有关新冠疫情的隐喻研究并确定最新的研究重点，本研究进行了文献计量、网络、主题映射和词云分析。结果表明：（1）新冠疫情隐喻研究在很大程度上受批判性话语分析研究方法的影响；（2）研究成果已对新闻等传统体裁以及社交媒体和多模态数据等新兴体裁进行了调查；（3）研究突出了隐喻在公共话语说服中所起的作用。本研究结果可为危机传播中的隐喻研究提供概述，有助于该领域或相关领域的未来研究。
