INFECTIOUS DISEASES ARE SLEEPING MONSTERS: Conventional and culturally adapted new metaphors in a corpus of abstracts on immunology

INFECTIOUS DISEASES ARE SLEEPING MONSTERS: Conventional and culturally adapted new metaphors in a corpus of abstracts on immunology

In this paper we examine the role played by metaphor in a corpus of sixty abstracts on immunology from Scientific American. We focus on the distinction between conventional metaphors and culturally adapted new metaphors and discuss the role played by metaphor choice in the communicative purposes of...

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Main Authors: Laura Hidalgo Downing, Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2009-04-01
Series:Ibérica
Subjects:
abstract
immunology
culturally adapted metaphor
persuasion
corpus study
Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/05_17_Hidalgo.pdf

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http://www.aelfe.org/documents/05_17_Hidalgo.pdf

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