“Designer Babies” and “Playing God”: Metaphor, Genome Editing, and Bioethics in Popular Science Texts

This study is a corpus-based analysis of metaphor in popular science texts about genetic engineering. It explores two sub-corpora of web articles drawn from Nature.com and TheGuardian.com in order to identify the metaphorical associations that authors of popularisation discourse trigger in the audie...

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Main Author: Elisa Mattiello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2019-11-01
Series:Lingue Culture Mediazioni
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Online Access:https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/1795