Background Cancer has long inspired fear, but the effect of fear is not well understood; it
seems both to facilitate and to deter early diagnosis behaviours. To elucidate fear's …

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to
diagnostic work, medicine–that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education …

Metaphors have been widely used in communication about the Covid-19 pandemic. The
virus has been described, for example, as an “enemy” to be “beaten,” a “tsunami” on health …

Doctors and nurses in these weeks and months are busy in the trenches, fighting against a
new invisible enemy: Covid-19. Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their …

In this article, we examine the notion of 'framing'as a function of metaphor from three
interrelated perspectives—cognitive, discourse-based, and practice-based—with the aim of …

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …

When faced with hardship, how do we emotionally appraise the situation? Although many
factors contribute to our reasoning about hardships, in this article we focus on the role of …

The words we use to talk about the current epidemiological crisis on social media can inform
us on how we are conceptualizing the pandemic and how we are reacting to its …

Bellicose metaphors for cancer are ubiquitous. But are they good metaphors for health
communicators to use? Because metaphors can guide reasoning about abstract concepts …