This study aims to show how different political leaders ideologically position themselves in the discourse of ‘problem frame’ in their first national response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To analyse the ideological nature of the ‘problem frame’, 17 leaders’ national lockdown speeches from different countries were collected and analysed within the theoretical framework of critical metaphor studies and frame semantics. Procedurally, metaphors in the collected speeches were identified by applying Pragglejaz Group’s MIP (2007) and MIPVU (2010), and coded into thematic categories via NVivo 12.0. Overall, 19 thematic codes (1,045 metaphorical expressions) were established, and their content analysis demonstrated specific differences in gender performance of a national health policy during the pandemic. It has been clarified that crisis political discourse is not that much affected by gender double bind, and female speakers openly display their femininity by focusing a lot on sensitivity and nurturance. By contrast, male speakers overwhelmingly follow a standardised competitive frame with emotional moments aimed at a more aggressive response to the pandemic and focusing on populist sentiment.

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危机政治话语中隐喻的领导风格

本研究旨在展示不同政治领导人在应对 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行的首次全国应对措施中如何在“问题框架”话语中对自己进行意识形态定位。为了分析“问题框架”的意识形态本质，我们收集了来自不同国家的17位领导人的全国封锁演讲，并在批判隐喻研究和框架语义学的理论框架内进行了分析。在程序上，通过应用 Pragglejaz Group 的 MIP (2007) 和 MIPVU (2010) 来识别收集的演讲中的隐喻，并通过 NVivo 12.0 编码到主题类别中。总体而言，建立了 19 个主题代码（1,045 个隐喻表达），其内容分析表明了大流行期间国家卫生政策的性别表现的具体差异。已经澄清的是，危机政治话语并没有受到性别双重束缚的太大影响，女性演讲者通过高度关注敏感性和教养来公开展示她们的女性气质。相比之下，男性演讲者绝大多数遵循标准化的竞争框架，充满情感时刻，旨在对这一流行病做出更积极的反应，并关注民粹主义情绪。