Konceptualizacja nadziei w metaforach pojęciowych w wypowiedziach pacjentów chorych na nowotwór złośliwy na tle wypowiedzi osób zdrowych

Abstract

Conceptualization of Hope in Conceptual Metaphors in the Statements of Patients with Malignant Tumor and Healthy People The article presents the results of analyses of language structures obtained from blog texts, divided into two parts: research group and control group. The analyses aimed at checking which metaphors are used to conceptualize hope among people with cancer and healthy people, and to identify differences in the conceptualization of this feeling. The difference is in the attitude of the conceptualising people: patients describe themselves more often as passive participants in events, and they usually borrow hope from others, while healthy people are more active. The issue of the influence of individual contextual factors on the formation of metaphors is also very interesting.

Keywords

• hope
• conceptualization
• conceptual metaphor
• cancer