Abstract

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.

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