Metaphors in communication about pregnancy loss

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1075/MSW.18030.LIT

J. Littlemore, Sarah Turner

引用次数: 21

Abstract

Abstract Pregnancy loss, encompassing miscarriage, stillbirth and termination for foetal abnormality, can be considered a particularly intense and unique form of bereavement, which engenders difficult or painful emotions. When people are talking about such emotions, they have been found to make extensive use of metaphor (Semino, 2011). In this paper, we use metaphor analysis of a small corpus of interviews with individuals in England who have suffered such losses, and people who support them, to explore the nature of the bereavement. In particular, we focus on the ways in which metaphor is used to describe the experience of the loss, the effects that this loss has on people’s conceptions of themselves and their bodies, and the implications this has for recovery. We identify a number of characteristics that can lead the bereaved to conceptualise their realities in different ways, which have implications for the grieving process, the ways in which people respond to their grief, and ultimately their recovery.

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妊娠损失交际中的隐喻

摘要妊娠损失，包括流产、死产和因胎儿异常而终止妊娠，可以被认为是一种特别强烈和独特的丧亲之痛，会产生困难或痛苦的情绪。当人们谈论这种情绪时，他们被发现广泛使用隐喻（Semino，2011）。在本文中，我们对英国遭受此类损失的个人和支持他们的人进行了一小部分采访，并对其进行了隐喻分析，以探讨丧亲之痛的本质。特别是，我们关注隐喻用于描述损失经历的方式，这种损失对人们对自己和身体的概念的影响，以及这对恢复的影响。我们确定了一些特征，这些特征可以导致丧亲者以不同的方式对他们的现实进行概念化，这些特征对悲伤过程、人们应对悲伤的方式以及最终的康复都有影响。

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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.