Table 2 Attack-words that collocate with the character 疫 in the L5/R5 range.

From: Framing Covid-19 reporting in the Macau Daily News using metaphors and gain/loss prospects: a war for collective gains

 

pinyin

gloss in English

co-occurrences

candidates

T-score

LogDice

衝擊

chōngjī

‘strike, shock’

60

124

7.544

7.844

打擊

dǎjī

‘hit, batter’

19

120

4.012

6.186

抗擊

kàngjī

‘resist an assault’

33

37

5.663

6.996

重創

zhòngchuāng

‘heavily inflicted’

11

15

3.260

5.415

來襲

lái xí

‘come to attack’

10

11

3.118

5.278

total

  

112

281