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Published 2007.
How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of
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Published 2007.
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 construal of pain in everyday language. This work is based on a specialised electronic corpus
of Greek naturally-occurring dialogues in a health care context, the underlying assumption being that in the absence of factual evidence intuition about
language cannot reliably detect or predict patterns of usage. Comparing Greek with English data, this book significantly contributes to the development of
this research field cross-linguistically.
