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The paper is about the COVID-19 discourse in the mainstream news portals in Lithuania presented as a critical review of contradicting approaches that developed together with the chronology of the events. It is supplemented by the linguistic analyses of the discourse, concentrated on its semantics, especially disrupted use of abstract notions.

Keywords: A discourse of segregation and discrimination ; Chronological development of the narrative ; Communication of irritation ; Confrontational and consolidating approaches ; Corpus based approach ; Distorted semantics of nouns ; Intimidating discourse ; Lexicon of the pandemic ; Linguistic analyses of the COVID-19 discourse ; War metaphor

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Pandemic Discourse: From Intimidation to Social Distancing
Intellect , 157 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389869_11
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