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T1 Fighting a Battle or Going on a Journey? Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Cancer in Patients' Blogs. A Case Study
A1 Esteban Puebla, Olga
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Conceptual metaphor
K1 Cáncer
K1 Metáfora conceptual
K1 Violencia
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The present dissertation presents a case study about the different conceptualizations of cancer found in blogs written by patients. Since conceptual metaphor is a matter of both  language  and  thought,  it  plays  a  big  role  on  the  understanding  and  the  way  of perceiving realities around us. Therefore it is important to understand how they work for  the  construction  of  illness.  Based  on  a  corpus  consisting  of  four  blogs  of  cancer sufferers, the aim of this paper was to study how breast cancer patients, both English and Spanish speakers, conceptualize their illness and their experience as patients. And more specifically, how the most  frequently used  metaphors, CANCER  IS  VIOLENCE  and CANCER IS A JOURNEY contribute to the perceptio   and living of the experience, and as aresult to the creation of emotions in the patients.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39335
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39335
LA eng
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024