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Title: | Metaphors of mental illness: a corpus-based approach analysing first-person accounts of patients and mental health professionals |
Author: | Coll-Florit, Marta ![]() Oliver, Antoni ![]() Climent, Salvador ![]() |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Citation: | Coll-Florit, M., Oliver, A., & Climent, S. (2021). Metaphors of mental illness: a corpus-based approach analysing first-person accounts of patients and mental health professionals. Cultura, Lenguaje Y Representación, 25, 85-104. https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.2021.25.5 |
Abstract: | In this paper we describe the building, manual annotation and analysis of a balanced corpus to assess conceptual metaphors on mental illness as used in Spanish blogger writing by patients and mental health professionals. The corpus was structured as eight subgroups: four patient subgroups (composed of persons who declared having been diagnosed with major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder) and four mental health professional subgroups (psychiatrists, psychologists, social educators, nurses). The quantitative analysis identified similarities and differences between groups regarding the volume of metaphors produced and the topics linguistically expressed through metaphors. The most frequent metaphors used by each major group, patients and professionals, were qualitatively analysed, with the principal findings showing a set of source domains used to conceptualize all four severe mental disorders, thus pointing to a common conceptualization of mental suffering irrespective of the specific diagnosis, and two major types of metaphors, WAR and JOURNEY, used by all subgroups of patients and professionals to talk about their first-hand experiences. |
Keywords: | conceptual metaphor mental illness blogs corpus |
DOI: | 10.6035/clr.2021.25.5 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Issue Date: | 18-May-2021 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ ![]() |
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