Cancer as a Metaphor (Letter to Editor)

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Shabani Minaabad Malahat

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Journal: Multidisciplinary Cancer Investigation Year:2020 | Volume:4 | Issue:4 Page(s): 0-0

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Cancer as a Metaphor (Letter to Editor)

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Shabani Minaabad Malahat | Issue Writer Certificate

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DEAR EDITOR, The term metaphor is derived from metaphora, a Greek word comprising meta (over) and pherin (carry), which literally means carrying over. Metaphors are important tools in thinking and communicating, and they have great importance in cognitive linguistics. Metaphors are abundantly used in different fields, including medical texts. In this respect, metaphors and abstract concepts are also found in cancer-related studies. Metaphors frame the same subject in different ways and facilitate different conclusions and evaluations. Thus metaphors can be used as an expression due to the existence of specific frames and clauses and assessments they suggest. Hence, using metaphors is a controversial topic because of a combination of such factors and the use of certain phrases and related concepts...

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