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Publication details [#51630]

Williams Camus, Julia T. 2009. Metaphors of cancer in scientific popularization articles in the British press. Discourse Studies 11 (4) : 465–495.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | metaphor | popular culture | press | scientific discussion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses the three main functions of metaphor use in scientific popularization articles on cancer in the British press (The Guardian), acknowledging that no single metaphorical system suffices to render the complexity of cancer-linked knowledge.