Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication

Beger, Anke

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“…Similarly, in Euro-American contexts a dominant metaphor for sadness is the spatial metaphor of "down" 6 (Berger, 2011;Kövecses, 2003). In fact, the term "depression" is itself a part of this spatial metaphor for sadness.…”

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Seligman¹

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call “prescribed” metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly used in mainstream clinical contexts. I explore the models of emotion communicated to youth by one such metaphor, youth responses to this metaphor, and the potential implications for young people as they take up the underlying models and affective practices embedded in the metaphor. Specifically, I examine how youth respond to messages about emotion metacognition and emotion regulation embedded in a metaphor that equates feelings with temperatures that can be monitored and objectively measured. I find that youth are at once convinced that abstract knowledge about internal states is inherently valuable because it is linked to desired forms of personhood, but also concerned about the limits of technical metaphors to capture aspects of lived experience and the flattening and homogenization of affect that might accompany the practices such metaphors help to enact. I analyze alternative interpretations of prescribed metaphors as well as the spontaneous metaphors used by youth to talk about their emotions and experiences of distress, in an effort to think through the politics and poetics of emotion metaphors in the context of an evidence-based psychotherapy for young people.

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Seligman¹

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Moreover, the meth odological triangulation of this thesis shows that different methods need to be applied to avoid premature conclusions about emotion concepts (for a more detailed account on the value of using different methods in empirical research, see also Beger 2011). Rather, the concep tualizations of these emotions seem to differ according to the goals of the commu nicative sit uation and the particular discourse roles of the participants.…”

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4. Beger, Anke. 2011. Anger, Love and Sadness revisited: studying emotion metaphors in authentic discourse between experts and laypersons

2011

English and American Studies in German

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The book starts from a methodological separation of analyses of phonetic substance and anal yses of abstract linguistic form. Rhythm is described as syllable rhythm (based on the distinc tion between full and reduced vowels and on lexical word stress) or accent rhythm (based on intonation nuclei). It is suggested that syllable rhythm contributes to the typo logical differ ence between English on the one hand and, for example, French and German on the other. Syllable rhythm and accent rhythm interact to establish rhythmical prominence patterns (peaks and valleys) that can be observed in concrete samples of speech, readings or recitals. Rhythmic patterns are usually local effects of spoken presentation in a concrete com muni cation situation, which are found in speech and readings of prose and poetry. Rhythmic pat terns can instantiate abstract metres like iambic feet. A writer of prose or poetry may choose wordings according to a pragmatic principle of rhythmic arrangement with the aim of sug gesting to a reader/reciter a rhythmical presentation. The proposed model offers a tool for evaluating rhythmic performances of reading aloud and reciting and for analysing the rhyth mic possibilities of prose and poetry.The book is structured into the following chapters: 1 The nature and meanings of rhythm, 2 Critical evaluation of rhythm-related concepts, 3 Levels of abstraction, 4 A linguistic defi nition of rhythm, 5 Types of rhythm, 6 Rhythm in textual rhetoric, 7 Rhythm in oral presen tation, 8 Conclusions. Beger, Anke. 2011. Anger, Love and Sadness revisited: studying emotion metaphors in authentic discourse between experts and laypersons.This Master thesis in the field of cognitive semantics is an application of the Cognitive Meta phor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980;Lakoff 1993) to authentic discourse data in the do main of emotion metaphors. Its aims are twofold. First

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“…Thus, expert-lay communication (see de Beaugrande, 1997;Gentner & Stevens, 1983) is not restricted to the interaction between health professionals and patients (as it would be in a face-to-face consultation), but is rather extended to the general public. This makes the conceptualization of the roles of text-producers and text-receivers a challenging task, and, as Beger (2011) remarks, "researchers are forced to simplify the complexity of this problem for methodological reasons" (p. 321).…”

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Reading minds: A study of deictic shifts in translated written interaction between mental-health professionals and their readers

Ricoy

2021

LANS-TTS

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The practice of knowledge mediation in written texts relating to the health sciences has hitherto received limited attention within Translation Studies. The overall aim of this study is to explore writer-reader interaction in a bilingual corpus of medical leaflets published on the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). In order to do this, a comparative analysis of English source texts and Spanish target texts was conducted to identify shifts in personal reference, which served to contrast patterns in knowledge transfer processes between mental health experts and their target audiences. The study is underpinned by Thompson and Thetela’s (1995) tenet that interactive and interactional features have to be considered in conjunction. It seeks to make a contribution to the relatively understudied field of how interaction patterns differ across cultural and linguistic settings. The corpus is of special interest due to the sensitivity of its subject matter, the varied constituency it addresses and the fact that the translated texts were produced and revised by mental health professionals.

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Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

4. Beger, Anke. 2011. Anger, Love and Sadness revisited: studying emotion metaphors in authentic discourse between experts and laypersons

Reading minds: A study of deictic shifts in translated written interaction between mental-health professionals and their readers

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