Naslov
Conceptual Metaphors in Discourse on Organ Donation

Autori
Koren, Sonja

Izvornik
Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (2303-5528) 3 (2016), 3; 163-171

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, ostalo

Ključne riječi
Metaphor, Body, Organ donation
(metaphor, body, organ donation)

Sažetak
The transplant surgery means replacing interior part of the body with living organs or tissue taken from another body without altering the self, but how much the self changes as a result of assimilating “alien” body parts because “we do live through our bodies and not just in them”. This paper investigates the metaphors expressing attitudes towards body and organ donation. They depend on the images people have of their bodies and are classified within three different social representations of the body appearing in the discourse on organ donation: “My body belongs to God” ; “I own my body” ; “I am my body”. The metaphors were extracted for the qualitative analysis out of the corpus of authentic scientific research articles on organ donation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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