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When a War Becomes a Journey. On the Transformation of Metaphors Describing the Experience of Illness with Regard to the Type and Phase of the Disease

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns two conceptual metaphors present in the contemporary medical discourse: DISEASE IS A WAR and DISEASE IS A JOURNEY. Linguistic observations, formulated within the cognitive linguistics framework, are set against the background of medical communication. Based on literature and selected texts representing the Polish medical discourse, the author discusses the structure of both metaphors describing the disease experience. The study seeks to examine the effectiveness of metaphors and possible effects of their use (i.e. metaphorical implications), depending on the disease they relate to, as well as its phase.

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