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Author Lascaratou, Chryssoula.

Title The language of pain : expression or description? / Chryssoula Lascaratou
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Series Converging evidence in language and communication research, 1566-7774 ; v. 9
Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 9. 1566-7774
Contents 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
Summary 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 pain utterances primarily used to express or to describe this experiential domain? This is the first book that investigates such questions from both a functional and a cognitive perspective: it combines two converging usage-based theoretical models in a systematic linguistic inquiry of the construa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and indexes
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Subject Psycholinguistics -- Data processing
Pain -- Data processing
Lexicology -- Data processing.
Greek language, Modern -- Psychological aspects -- Data processing
PHILOSOPHY -- Language.
Lexicology -- Data processing
Psycholinguistics -- Data processing
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Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007026886
ISBN 9789027292056
9027292051
128215270X
9781282152700