本文探讨了木头菌的媒体表现,引起严重植物病害的细菌,使用来自英语在线来源的数据,报告了2015年至2020年细菌传播和治疗的发展。追求两个分析方向,定量和定性。定量分析表明,细菌及其影响是通过属于恐惧词汇领域的术语来描述的,疾病,改变,超自然的,敌意,破坏,杀戮和战争,从统计学上讲,后三者是最主要的。Further,定性分析证明,这些术语中的一些被隐喻地用作战争隐喻的实例,通常可以有效地传达X.fastidiosa引起的疾病的严重程度并动员必要的支持。根据结果,可以说,媒体中用于描述X.fastidiosa的语言适合流行的“灾难话语”,为了提高人们对这种细菌造成的威胁的严重性的认识,并证明为遏制它而采取的严厉措施是合理的。
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The paper explores media representations of Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium that causes severe plant diseases, using data from online sources in English which reported on the developments in the bacterium spreading and treatment from 2015 to 2020. Two directions of analysis are pursued, the quantitative and qualitative one. Quantitative analysis reveals that the bacterium and its effects are described via the terms belonging to the lexical fields of fear, diseases, change, the supernatural, hostility, destruction, killing and war, with the latter three being the most dominant statistically speaking. Further, qualitative analysis attests that some of these terms are used metaphorically as instantiations of the war metaphor, which is generally effective in communicating the severity of the X. fastidiosa induced diseases and mobilising the necessary support. Based on the results, it may be argued that the language used in the media for describing X. fastidiosa fits into the prevalent \"catastrophe discourse\", with the purpose of raising awareness of the gravity of the threat the bacterium poses, as well as justifying the severe measures undertaken to contain it.
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