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The language of pain : expression or description? /

How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced? Are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lascaratou, Chryssoula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Colección:Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Language of Pain; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Pain and language; 3. Corpus design and data collection; 4. Mode of analysis; 5. Data analysis and general discussion; 6. The construal of pain as process; 7. The construal of pain as thing-participant; 8. Pain and metaphor; 9. Conclusions; References; Appendix A: Pain as process; Appendix B: Pain as thing; Appendix C; Name index; Subject index; The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research.