Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The COVID‐19 pandemic, with its profound and lasting impacts on public health, economies, and social structures, reshaped societies worldwide. Language played a pivotal role in influencing public perceptions, guiding behaviors, and shaping policies during the crisis. This entry highlights key contributions from corpus‐based research, including analyses of dominant discourses, metaphorical framings, meaning shifts, and government communication strategies. These studies, using descriptive and applied methodologies, provide an empirical foundation for understanding how the pandemic was framed linguistically, revealing the ways language shaped and reflected public attitudes and institutional responses. Findings have informed collaborations with health authorities, assessments of public health messaging, and the development of alternative framings to improve communication and public engagement during this global emergency.</jats:p>