Enemies or obstacles?

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2022-05-31 DOI:10.1075/msw.21035.col

Marta Coll-Florit, S. Climent

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This study examines the use of metaphors of war and journey in a million-word corpus of Spanish-language blogs written by patients with severe mental disorders and by mental health professionals. Quantitative results indicate that both metaphors are more prevalent among patients than professionals, supporting the idea that they are mostly used in this context for communicating complex and emotionally intense experiences. From a qualitative perspective, our results show that patients use both metaphors to deal with exactly the same ontological elements of the situation (the disorder, symptoms, negative emotions, everyday problems, social prejudice, medical activity, people close to the patients and the patients themselves) but framing them differently. Further analysis shows that both metaphors have positive and negative uses in terms of emotions conveyed, empowerment and suitability for coping with the situation. In light of this, we conclude with a discussion of proposals promoting the positive uses of these metaphors.

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敌人还是障碍?

这项研究考察了严重精神障碍患者和心理健康专业人员撰写的西班牙语博客的百万字语料库中战争和旅程隐喻的使用情况。定量结果表明，这两种隐喻在患者中比专业人士更普遍，这支持了它们主要用于交流复杂和情感紧张的经历的观点。从定性的角度来看，我们的研究结果表明，患者使用这两种隐喻来处理完全相同的情况本体论元素（障碍、症状、负面情绪、日常问题、社会偏见、医疗活动、与患者关系密切的人和患者自己），但对它们的理解不同。进一步的分析表明，这两种隐喻在情感传达、赋权和应对情况的适合性方面都有积极和消极的用途。有鉴于此，我们最后讨论了促进积极使用这些隐喻的建议。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.