Conceptual Metonymy of COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam’s Online Newspapers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1406.12Keywords:
conceptual metonymy, cognitive linguistics, COVID-19 pandemic, PLACE FOR EVENTAbstract
Conceptual metonymy which is based on the contingent relationship between a source concept and a target concept helps people perceive the world. The article discusses the concept and principles of conceptual metonymy and analyses the conceptual metonymy of COVID-19 pandemic used in official online newspapers published in Vietnam. 100 articles were selected for analysis. The study focuses on the "PLACE FOR EVENT" metonymy with the aim of shedding light on the Vietnamese’s cognitive ways of thinking. Vietnamese people tend to use the geographical location where the COVID-19 pandemic occurs as a substitute for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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