“诺亚的家人被封锁了”：尼日利亚WhatsApp空间中与宗教冠状病毒相关的互联网记忆中的多模式隐喻

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2021.2006044

Oluwabunmi O. Oyebode, F. Unuabonah

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摘要本文研究了与新冠肺炎相关的宗教网络模因的形式和功能，以期确定模因产生的概念隐喻。这些数据由尼日利亚WhatsApp空间中共享的30个宗教互联网模因组成，使用宗教互联网模因为的分类和多模态隐喻的概念进行了定性分析。模因包含（非）语言隐喻，如圣经中诺亚方舟的图片，以及诺亚的家人被封锁等表达方式，揭示了潜在的概念隐喻，如封锁是一个目标指令和新冠肺炎是一场战争。这些表情包被用来减轻人们面对疾病的恐惧，并鼓励人们遵守封锁令等。研究表明，这些宗教模因的形式和功能有助于揭示模因背后的多模态概念隐喻。

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“Noah’s Family Was on Lockdown”: Multimodal Metaphors in Religious Coronavirus-Related Internet Memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp Space

ABSTRACT This paper examines the forms and functions of religious Internet memes that relate to Covid-19, with a view to identifying the conceptual metaphors that underlie the creation of the memes. The data, which consist of thirty religious Internet memes shared in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, are analyzed qualitatively using the categorization of religious Internet memes, and the concept of multimodal metaphors. The memes contain (non-)linguistic metaphors such as the picture of Biblical Noah’s ark and expressions such as Noah’s family was on lockdown, which reveal underlying conceptual metaphors such as LOCKDOWN IS A GODLY INSTRUCTION and COVID-19 IS A WAR. The memes are used to allay the fears of people in the face of the disease, and encourage adherence to lockdown orders, amongst others. The study concludes that the forms and functions of these religious memes assist in revealing the multimodal conceptual metaphors underlying the memes.

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期刊介绍： Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.