Dunja Y.M. Wackers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dunja Y.M. Wackers plays a role.

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Wackers, Dunja Y.M., H. José Plug and Gerard J. Steen 2020 Violence metaphors for cancer: Pragmatic and symptomatic arguments against Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 121–140 | Article
The use of violence metaphors for cancer has been widely criticised both in academic and non-academic contexts (see Harrington, 2012; Semino et al., 2015). Whereas previous research on violence metaphors for cancer has focused on the use and functions of these metaphors by and for different… read more