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This present study is aimed at taking a look at the Covid-19 coverage in political discourse considering the metaphor-based method. This article mainly aims at examining the substantial role of metaphor as well as language in a manner we understand and converse as special metaphorical notions seem to be the fundamental mechanisms of forming actuality in the prevailing era. Discourse and cognitive analysis along with modeling, statistical and contextual analyses are taken into account to accomplish the study's objectives. The study's outcomes acquired demonstrate that nowadays, dominant sorts of metaphors, including war or military metaphors and catastrophe and animal ones. The mentioned metaphors are examined in political discourses on a gross scale.
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The article examines the axiological status of the concept "strange" in journalistic articles devoted to SARS-CoV-2. The axiological interpretation of the concept in question occurs through various subjective and objective value judgments. The purpose of the article is an axiological analysis of the concept "strange", which reveals hidden or explicit, positive, negative or neutral evaluative meanings of this concept in the modern English language picture of the world. Through the study of the axiological component of the concepts, the specificity and mental preferences are displayed not only of an individual specific linguistic personality, but also of the people as a whole in a certain period of time. Through the prism of the axiological analysis of concepts the peculiarities of the value preferences of a linguistic personality are revealed, which outside the context can acquire a different axiological status. Thus, after the study of the concept "strange" it was revealed that this concept has a negative axiological status in the axiosphere of the English language picture of the world.
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The article is meant to look at the COVID-19 coverage in political discourse in the frames of the metaphor based approach. The authors aimed at examining the role of language and metaphor in the way we speak and understand as particular metaphorical concepts appear to be key mechanisms of shaping the reality in these times. The results introduced in the article show that currently predominating types of metaphors such as military or war metaphors, animal and catastrophe metaphors. The above metaphors are studied in political discourses on the gross scale.