Abstract
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, we have seen a surge in the use of the term ‘frontline’ to refer to key workers responding to the virus. Using the News on the Web (NOW) Corpus, we present a corpus pattern analysis of the adjective ‘frontline’ in British English news texts before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Aside from the biopolitical implications of the Covid-as-war metaphor and its focus on health work, this new phraseological patterning raises questions about the impact of the pandemic on the meaning of ‘frontline’ itself.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference EUROPHRAS 2022 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-954-452-080-9 |
| Publication status | Published (VoR) - 2022 |