Niamh A. O'Dowd (@niamhaod.bsky.social)

Floods and fires: Reciprocal metaphorical mappings in crisis response - Making Science Public Psychologists, sociologists, linguists and many others have studied how people respond to extreme weather events, such as floods or wildfires. Some linguists have been interested in particular in analysing the use and impact of metaphors. When we studied the 2021 German floods, Rusi Jaspal and I found that floods were either metaphorically framed as human, ... https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2025/02/14/floods-and-fires-reciprocal-metaphorical-mappings-in-crisis-response/