A qualitative study of endometriosis-related pain

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI:10.1075/msw.22021.and

Giorgia Andreolli

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Abstract

This paper examines the conceptualizations of endometriosis-related pain by combining Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) with a corpus-based approach. Endometriosis is a complex and multi-faceted condition, affecting one in ten people assigned female at birth and bearing serious consequences on one’s physical, social and psychological wellbeing. Especially in cases when the pain is invisible, communication resorts to violent metaphors implying harm, physical damage, or fight. These metaphors are thought to increase the likelihood of eliciting an empathetic response in the interlocutor. However, such narratives may be detrimental at the individual level (e.g., increasing pain catastrophizing) and at the community level (e.g., overshadowing the capacity of communities to construct and use metaphors in alternative ways). Therefore, this study presents an initial exploratory analysis of metaphorical source domains in descriptions of endometriosis-related pain written in online, freely accessible blogs. Metaphorical expressions were manually annotated in a sample of KWICs basing on the MIPVU procedure and thematically categorized. The adoption of a bottom-up and top-down approach within a qualitative framework allowed an empirically grounded analysis of candidate source domains, which calls for further quantitative testing.

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子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的定性研究

本文将概念隐喻理论（CMT）与基于语料库的方法相结合，研究子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的概念化。子宫内膜异位症是一种复杂而多方面的疾病，每十个出生时被指定为女性的人中就有一个受到影响，并对一个人的身体、社会和心理健康产生严重影响。尤其是在疼痛看不见的情况下，沟通会诉诸暴力隐喻，暗示伤害、身体伤害或打斗。这些隐喻被认为会增加对话者产生移情反应的可能性。然而，这种叙述可能在个人层面（例如，增加痛苦的灾难性）和社区层面上是有害的（例如，掩盖了社区以替代方式构建和使用隐喻的能力）。因此，本研究对在线免费博客中描述子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的隐喻源域进行了初步探索性分析。基于MIPVU程序，在KWIC样本中手动注释隐喻表达，并对其进行主题分类。在定性框架内采用自下而上和自上而下的方法，可以对候选来源领域进行基于经验的分析，这需要进一步的定量测试。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

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11.10%

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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.