@inproceedings{khaliq-etal-2021-covid,
    title = "{\#}covid is war and {\#}vaccine is weapon? {COVID}-19 metaphors in {I}ndia",
    author = "Khaliq, Mohammed  and
      Joseph, Rohan  and
      Rai, Sunny",
    editor = "Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji  and
      Devi, Sobha Lalitha  and
      Bhattacharyya, Pushpak",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2021",
    address = "National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India",
    publisher = "NLP Association of India (NLPAI)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/2021.icon-main.52/",
    pages = "431--438",
    abstract = "Metaphors are creative cognitive constructs that are employed in everyday conversation to describe abstract concepts and feelings. Prevalent conceptual metaphors such as WAR, MONSTER, and DARKNESS in COVID-19 online discourse sparked a multi-faceted debate over their efficacy in communication, resultant psychological impact on listeners, and their appropriateness in social discourse. In this work, we investigate metaphors used in discussions around COVID-19 on Indian Twitter. We observe subtle transitions in metaphorical mappings as the pandemic progressed. Our experiments, however, didn`t indicate any affective impact of WAR metaphors on the COVID-19 discourse."
}