Conceptual Metaphors in Academic Medical Research Articles  

Oleh:

Mungra, Philippa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 5 no. 2 (2009), page 5-33.
Topik: metaphor; research articles; medical literature; conceptual blends; mapping of metaphor domains.
Fulltext: Untitled2.pdf (499.98KB)

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Figurative language comprehension has strong connections within the area of metaphor. While research has been done in classic English literature and poetry on metaphors, and some attention has been paid to the areas of economics and finance, very little attention has been paid to metaphors in the medical or scientific literature. We conducted an observational study of linguistic metaphors in a small pilot corpus of the discussion sections of medical research articles.We obse group consisted of primary metaphors using input domains relating to bodily experience or to a cultural one, such as container, movement, fictive motion and justice. A smaller group of metaphors were found to be blends of words or phrases. Here an explanation of the formation of these metaphors and blends is given

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