Metaphor as a window on talk about trauma and post traumatic growth DOI - 10.5752/P.2358-3428.2014v18n34p283

<p>People who have suffered traumatic experiences struggle to speak out loud about those events and the resulting pain. At the same time, talking about the trauma and its consequences is a precondition for recovery. This paper adopts Conceptual Metaphor Theory (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980) to invest...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adriana Costa, Gerard Steen
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais 2014-07-01
Series:Scripta
Subjects:
Online Access:http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/8789