Virus Image In The Chinese Media: Comparative Analysis Of Coronavirus And Ebola Metaphoric Represantation
Table 1:
| Entailment | Ebola (nbr/%) | Coronavirus (nbr/%) |
| To fight the virus is to protect against the enemy | 23 / 19% | 58 / 45.3% |
| To fight the virus is to attack the enemy | 49 / 40.5% | 35 / 27.3% |
| Medical workers – war heroes | 38 / 31.4 % | 16 / 12.5% |
| Fighting the virus is a common war | 0 | 9 / 7% |
| Contamination region is a battlefield | 5/ 4.1% | 10 / 7.8 % |
| Patients are war victims | 6 / 4.99% | 0 |