Publications

Publication details [#65434]

Matlock, Teenie and Dalia Magaña. 2018. How Spanish speakers use metaphor to describe their experiences with cancer. Discourse & Communication 12 (6) : 627–644.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | disease terminology | metaphor | narrative | speaker

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This inquiry searches a better grasp of how Spanish-speaking cancer patients communicate about their personal cancer experiences. It explores the employment of metaphor in narratives supplied to an online forum for Spanish speakers stricken by diverse cancer types.