Metaphorical framing of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: A corpus driven critical analysis of war metaphors in news media

• Arooj Rana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arooj Rana, Tahir Ayoub, Shazia Akbar Ghilzai, Wasima Shehzad

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of English, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Tahir Ayoub ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arooj Rana, Tahir Ayoub, Shazia Akbar Ghilzai, Wasima Shehzad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of English, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Shazia Akbar Ghilzai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arooj Rana, Tahir Ayoub, Shazia Akbar Ghilzai, Wasima Shehzad

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sghilzai@qau.edu.pk

  Affiliation Department of English, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-8672

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• Wasima Shehzad

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arooj Rana, Tahir Ayoub, Shazia Akbar Ghilzai, Wasima Shehzad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of English, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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