HOW WAR DEFINES US. A LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE

Andreea-Nicoleta Soare ()
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Andreea-Nicoleta Soare: Romanian American University

Romanian Economic Business Review, 2025, vol. 20, issue 1, 102-112

Abstract: No one likes war. No one likes the atrocities happening during a war and their consequences and the traumas they leave behind. However, war was always part of our world, bringing us where we are now and giving us the borders we now enjoy. As wars have been part of the world’s societies for so long, they define how we think, see the world, and speak. This paper aims to show how words and expressions, so metaphors, belonging to the military field, normally used in a war zone or for war-related contexts, are now being used in situations that have nothing to do with conflicts and employ different meanings than the ones they originally had. The research will be focused on a corpus composed of headlines from Romanian online news websites to show how a changing media system pushes journalists to rely on exaggerated headlines to keep their readers close. The consequence of using war metaphors in stories about politics is, however, the trivialization of real war information.

Keywords: war; linguistics; expressions; words; metaphors; pragmatics; military; online media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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