Premium Metaphors In Medical Texts.(Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication 8) – Geraldine W. van Rijn-Van Tongeren

This book claims that metaphors must be seen as indispensable cognitive and communicative instruments in medical science. Analysis of texts taken from recently published medical handbooks reveals what kind of metaphors are used to structure certain medical concepts and what the functions are of the metaphorical expressions in the texts.This book should be of interest not only to linguists, translators and researchers working in the field of intercultural communication, but also to doctors and medical scient…