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Who is behind #ReframeCovid?
#ReframeCovid is an ongoing Twitter conversation among linguists and citizens from all over the world.
#ReframeCovid timeline
Inés Olza sends first tweet on war rhetoric on Covid-19 and proposes a brief 'menu' of alternative spatial metaphors, following the example of 'metaphor menu' for cancer patients by Elena Semino and the team at CASS, Lancaster.
A good number of (cognitive) linguists react to first tweets and feed the 'menu' with other metaphors: Iraide Ibarretxe, Laura Filardo, Elena Sánchez, Ricardo-María Jiménez-Yáñez, Ana Pano, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Brigitte Nerlich, Barbara De Cock, Marianna Bolognesi, Lorena Pérez, Reyes Llopis-García, among others.
Beatriz Gallardo Paúls proposes to use a hashtag. Paula Pérez-Sobrino launches the hashtag #ReframeCovid.
Veronika Koller sets up an open-source document to collect #ReframeCovid metaphors (alternative, non-war-related ones) from various languages. Currently the document is managed by Pernille Bogø.
List of contributors to the collaborative #ReframeCovid document (as of September 19th, 2020):
Aleksandra Salamurovic, Alessandra Molino, Alexandra Ciocănel, Alexandra Nagornaya, Ana Belén Martínez García, Ana Werkmann Horvat, Angeliki Lampropoulou, Anna Vacalopoulou, Anna W. Gustafsson, Antonis Kountouris, Ashraf Riadh Abdullah, Awni Etaywe, Barbara De Cock, Beatriz Martín Gascón, Berenike Herrmann, Bilyana Todorova, Brendan K. O'Rourke, Brigitte Nerlich, Britta Brugman, Chiara Fedriani, Donna Leishman, E Hidalgo Tenorio, Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Elena Sánchez, Elena Semino, Erik Borg, Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan, Esther Linares, Esther Pascual, Ffion Brown, Gabriela Diaz-Davalos, Giulia Frezza, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, Gudrun Reijnierse, Halyna Kaluzhna, Huey Fen Cheong, Inés Olza, Iona Walker, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Isabel Solana, Işın Tekin, Jana Declercq, Jenny Watts, Jianan Zhang, John McCartney, Justyna Wawrzyniuk, Karin Milles, Kate Power, Khadidja Merakchi, Khaled Alenazy, Ksenija Bogetić, Kumaran Rajandran, Lalita Murty, Laura Filardo Llamas, LJerka Jeftić, Ljiljana Šarić, Lorena Baretto, Lorena Perez, Lotte van Poppel, Lucía Herrero, M. Cristina Caimotto, Magnus P. Ängsal, Maria Grazia Rossi, María J. Ortiz, María Muelas-Gil, María Teresa Burguillo Escobar, Mariángeles Lamolda, Marieke Jochimsen, Maryam Ramezankhani, Massimiliano Demata, Mikkel Ekeland Paulsen (UiB), Miriam Leibbrand, Mitchell McKee, Murthy Dakshina, Nat Kendall-Taylor, Paola Pietrandrea, Paolo Costa, Paula Pérez Sobrino, Pernille Bogø Jørgensen, Pia Sommerauer, Reyes Llopis-Garcia, Ricardo-María Jiménez-Yáñez, Rukayah Alhedayani, Rupert Psmith, Sally Zacharias, Sami Chatti, Sergio Sánchez-Pando, Silvia Rossi, Somayeh Hatamzadeh , Sonja Zeman , Stella Bullo, Susan Nacey, Thessaloniki CL Research Group, Tom Van Hout, Veronika Koller, Woralan Kongpolphrom, Yeqing Kong, Zoe Gravani.