COVID-19 as WATER? The functions of WATER metaphors in the metaphorical representation of COVID-19

• Zhibin Peng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhibin Peng, Yating Yu, Dennis Tay

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Foreign Language Research Department, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

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• Yating Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhibin Peng, Yating Yu, Dennis Tay

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yatingyu20170901@outlook.com

  Affiliation The Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-0130

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• Dennis Tay

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhibin Peng, Yating Yu, Dennis Tay

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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