Abstract 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 the abstracts and their register features. We argue that one of the main strategies used to attract the reader�s attention is the combination of highly conventionalized metaphors, which occur more frequently in the corpus, together with what we call �culturally adapted new metaphors�, which display different degrees of creativity and are less frequent in the corpus. Conventional metaphors typically reinforce the world view shared by the ...
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Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
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Immunotherapy constitutes a paradigm shift in medicine: from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to perso...
This article aims to show, in a summarized way, how different studies on metaphor can positively con...
This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological discourse. Dr...
Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
This thesis provides an account of the metaphors of cancer in a comparable English and Spanish corp...
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Metaphors have been shown to be paramount in health communication in the light of their capacity to ...
Complex phenomena such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are often explained in biomedical sciences ...
The aim of this paper is to bring together instances of metaphor and idiomatic language relating in ...
According to the general prejudice about scientific writings, the specificity of which consists of t...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
The primary way of presenting phenomena which are elusive for the senses, the mechanisms of which ex...
Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
This article identifies, describes and analyzes specific instances of metaphors used to represent an...
My reading of David Napier's article foregrounds or highlights (1) a key scientific “discovery” or o...
Immunotherapy constitutes a paradigm shift in medicine: from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to perso...
This article aims to show, in a summarized way, how different studies on metaphor can positively con...
This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological discourse. Dr...
Immunology has always relied on metaphorical language. In its early beginnings, it varied between be...
This thesis provides an account of the metaphors of cancer in a comparable English and Spanish corp...
In this work we present a review of the main ideas about the relationship between metaphor theories ...
Metaphors have been shown to be paramount in health communication in the light of their capacity to ...
Complex phenomena such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are often explained in biomedical sciences ...
The aim of this paper is to bring together instances of metaphor and idiomatic language relating in ...
According to the general prejudice about scientific writings, the specificity of which consists of t...