Chapter published in:
Operationalizing IconicityEdited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 17] 2020
► pp. 266–289
Resemblance metaphors and embodiment as iconic markers in medical understanding and communication by non-experts
Maribel Tercedor Sánchez | University of Granada
Antonio Jesús Láinez Ramos-Bossini | University of Granada
This paper analyses resemblance metaphors as a cognitive
device that can enhance understanding of medical realities,
upholding their relevance in terminological work. It deals with
metaphorical images as facilitators of comprehension of medical
entities, from the perspective of embodiment. A twofold study was
carried out: a spontaneous production task in which drawings of
depression were made, and resemblance metaphors analyzed, and a
corpus-based analysis of embodied views of depression. The drawings
are made through embodied representations of concepts or perceptual
symbolic simulations having their parallels in language use as
observed in the CanFor corpus of online discussions about
cancer.
Published online: 13 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.17.16san
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.17.16san
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