Popularising Cancer through WAR, VIOLENCE and AGGRESSION Methaphors :: A Corpus-Based Study

• Julia T. Williams Camus ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Cantabria

     Universidad de Cantabria

     Santander, España

     
• Localización: Current Trends in Corpus Linguistics / José Luis Oncins Martínez (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 9783631797228, págs. 35-54
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The chapter examines the use of metaphors from the WAR, VIOLENCE and AGGRESSION source domain in a bilingual corpus of three hundred popularisations drawn from the English (The Guardian and The Times) and Spanish (El País and El Mundo) press. It adopts a discourse-oriented approach to metaphor and combines computer-assisted and manual quantitative analyses. Identification of the metaphors was carried out mostly manually with the aid of a corpus software program. The metaphorical candidates from the two subcorpora were then compared quantitatively and qualitatively for cross-cultural differences in terms of frequency, patterning and preferences. The analysis shows that metaphorical expressions from the WAR, VIOLENCE and AGGRESSION source domain are pervasive in both subcorpora. Although cancer is metaphorised in a similar way in the two languages in the context of the press, noticeable differences were observed between the two subcorpora that render the Spanish discourse less aggresive.