“…As for the incidence of metaphor in medical genres, Giannoni (2009) shows how frequency of metaphorical lexical items conveys the disciplinary values associated with academic medical discourse. In addition, conventional metaphor in medical scientific discourse reveals the relevance of metaphorical models like war, sport, the body-as-machine, personification, among others, in the conceptualization of medical processes and notions (Finatto, 2010;Huang, 2005;Masukume & Zumla, 2012;Mungra, 2007;Periyakoil, 2008). Semino (2008Semino ( , 2011 shows the variation of particular metaphors and their linguistic expression in different discourse genres for diverse purposes.…”