A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives

Metaphor on cancer has been frequently addressed in research due to its powerful use in both spoken and written discourse. The analysis of cancer related metaphor in language would provide insights into how cancer patients conceive the cancer disease and their experiences with...

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Main Author:	Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Cancer in literature Literary Essays
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spelling	my-upm-ir.846762021-12-31T03:39:51Z A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives 2019-04 Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran Metaphor on cancer has been frequently addressed in research due to its powerful use in both spoken and written discourse. The analysis of cancer related metaphor in language would provide insights into how cancer patients conceive the cancer disease and their experiences with the disease. However, studies conducted cross- linguistically on cancer metaphors are scarce as most previous studies on cancer have mainly focused on European languages. This study sought to examine the use of cancer related metaphors in women’s narratives in Malay and English language. The specific objectives of this study are to unravel the conceptual metaphor that underlie the metaphorical expressions in Malay women’s narratives on cancer experience and to compare the unravelled Malay conceptual metaphor with those of English. In this study, the cancer data in Malay were extracted from Malay women’s narratives on cancer experience and were identified and selected based on the Pragglejaz Group’s Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (2007). In contrast, the English data, a secondary data, was extracted from Gibbs and Franks. Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) was employed for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed 14 conceptual metaphors of cancer in the Malay data which structure the women’s experience with cancer. The comparison between Malay and English conceptual metaphors on cancer revealed differences and similarities in the conceptualisation of cancer in both languages. Accordingly, the findings of the study showed that Malay and English share some conceptual metaphors and also differences. Whilst the former provides evidence for the theory of metaphor universality, the identified variation shows that cancer metaphor is also culture- specific to Malay. The findings of the study provide insights into how women across different languages and cultures conceive the cancer disease and their experience with the disease, which would be valuable to health professionals and caretakers to find more effective ways of communicating and thinking about cancer, and providing emotional support to women cancer patients. Cancer in literature Literary Essays 2019-04 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/84676/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/84676/1/FBMK%202019%2038%20-%20ir.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Cancer in literature Literary Essays Md Rashid, Sabariah
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topic	Cancer in literature Literary Essays
spellingShingle	Cancer in literature Literary Essays Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
description	Metaphor on cancer has been frequently addressed in research due to its powerful use in both spoken and written discourse. The analysis of cancer related metaphor in language would provide insights into how cancer patients conceive the cancer disease and their experiences with the disease. However, studies conducted cross- linguistically on cancer metaphors are scarce as most previous studies on cancer have mainly focused on European languages. This study sought to examine the use of cancer related metaphors in women’s narratives in Malay and English language. The specific objectives of this study are to unravel the conceptual metaphor that underlie the metaphorical expressions in Malay women’s narratives on cancer experience and to compare the unravelled Malay conceptual metaphor with those of English. In this study, the cancer data in Malay were extracted from Malay women’s narratives on cancer experience and were identified and selected based on the Pragglejaz Group’s Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (2007). In contrast, the English data, a secondary data, was extracted from Gibbs and Franks. Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) was employed for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed 14 conceptual metaphors of cancer in the Malay data which structure the women’s experience with cancer. The comparison between Malay and English conceptual metaphors on cancer revealed differences and similarities in the conceptualisation of cancer in both languages. Accordingly, the findings of the study showed that Malay and English share some conceptual metaphors and also differences. Whilst the former provides evidence for the theory of metaphor universality, the identified variation shows that cancer metaphor is also culture- specific to Malay. The findings of the study provide insights into how women across different languages and cultures conceive the cancer disease and their experience with the disease, which would be valuable to health professionals and caretakers to find more effective ways of communicating and thinking about cancer, and providing emotional support to women cancer patients.
format	Thesis
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author	Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran
author_facet	Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran
author_sort	Mohd Jamil, Nur Sabrina Zafiran
title	A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
title_short	A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
title_full	A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
title_fullStr	A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
title_full_unstemmed	A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives
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granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/84676/1/FBMK%202019%2038%20-%20ir.pdf
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A cognitive semantic analysis of cancer metaphor in Malay and English women’s narratives

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