作者
Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Jane Demmen, Veronika Koller, Sheila Payne, Andrew Hardie, Paul Rayson
发表日期
2017/3/1
期刊
BMJ supportive & palliative care
卷号
7
期号
1
页码范围
60-66
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objective
To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use Violence and Journey metaphors when writing online; and to investigate the use of these metaphors by patients with cancer, in view of critiques of war-related metaphors for cancer and the adoption of the notion of the ‘cancer journey’ in UK policy documents.
Design
Computer-assisted quantitative and qualitative study of two data sets totalling 753 302 words.
Setting
A UK-based online forum for patients with cancer (500 134 words) and a UK-based website for health professionals (253 168 words).
Participants
56 patients with cancer writing online between 2007 and 2012; and 307 health professionals writing online between 2008 and 2013.
Results
Patients with cancer use both Violence metaphors and Journey metaphors approximately 1.5 times per 1000 words to describe their illness experience. In similar online …
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