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In this
research I will identify and describe the metaphorical expressions for pain
recorded in the texts included in the Middle English Medical Texts corpus,
a collection of english medical writings from the period 1350-1500.
Furthermore, i will propose a comparison between the resulting list of
specialised medical metaphors and a list of metaphorical patterns for pain
extracted from a multi-genre, late middle english corpus, the Helsinki
Corpus of English Texts (subperiods me iii and me iV), which I will use
here as my reference corpus. In doing so, I will try to show that medieval
medical authors borrowed or developed new metaphorical extensions in order to
describe pain and its treatments. Through the use of these metaphorical
patterns, medieval medical writers tried to refer to pain as a process, with a
beginning, a treatment and an end. in fact, pain is frequently conceived of as
a living entity of adverse nature (e.g. a soldier, an enemy, a wild animal),
and it is the doctor’s role to fight it with all the weapons (i.e. treatments)
at his disposal. These conceptual choices differ greatly from the
conceptualizations of pain found in the multi-genre corpus, where pain is
frequently conceived of as a permanent state or as a place.
Díaz Vera, J.
(2012). When pain is not a place: Pain and its metaphors in late middle English
medical texts. Onomázein, nro. 26, pp. 279-308.
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