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The study aims to analyze the conceptual metaphor of fear and sadness of utterances towards the Covid-19 plague. Furthermore, the study also the conceptual system of Thai language users derived from conceptual metaphor based on cognitive semantics using the information from Thai contexts, including 40 online news and 30 online articles. Such information was published between December 2019 to May 2020. The researchers selected utterances expressing the emotion of fear and sadness as the model and analyzed conceptual metaphor using Lakoff, G. & Kövecses, Z. (1987) and Kövecses, Z. (2002, 2005, 2006) as the conceptual framework of analysis. The findings revealed nine features of the conceptual metaphor of utterances expressing fear and sadness in the Thai language found during the Covid-19 plague. These nine features of conceptual metaphor were DOMINANCE, PLANT, SUPERNATURAL, FOOD, PRECIOUS MATERIAL, WAR, MATERIAL, ANIMAL, and HUMAN, especially PARTS OF BODY. Such conceptual metaphor reflected the two concepts of fear and sadness in the Thai language found during the Covid-19 plague. The two concepts were the conceptual system of ontological correspondences and the conceptual system of epistemic correspondences.

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