We agree with Martin Döring (2014) that it is surprising that, as the use of metaphors in relation to biotechnology innovation has intensified, there is still a lack of systematic study of the normative implications, and associated moral and ethical assumptions, inherent in this metaphors use.
The evaluative positions explicitly expressed in the editorial are identified and discussed, and then the positions provoked by lexical metaphors are examined in relation to these explicit ones.
The second aspect of this theme drew upon a metaphor of 'constant change' in relation to the field of HIV medicine.
"One needs extreme difference to make metaphors", Muldoon has quipped in relation to Donne, and in "Giraffe" the mind strains to find any degree of likeness that might connect the two dislocated halves of this sundered sonnet, mimetic of how the "mouth's out of sync / with her own overdub".
Following analysis, the following main themes emerged: diversity in conceptualising pain using a simple numerical score; personalising the meaning of pain by way of stories, similes and metaphors; and, contextualising pain in relation to its impact on activities.
These were: diversity in conceptualising pain using a simple numerical score; personalising the meaning of pain by way of storytelling and metaphors; and, contextualising pain in relation to its impact on everyday activities.
Last two years have taken its toll on me.' (Caucasian Female 1, aged 81 with joint pain)." Three themes relating to descriptions of chronic pain emerged from our analysis: diversity in conceptualising pain using a simple numerical score; personalising the meaning of pain by way of stories, similes and metaphors; and, contextualising pain in relation to its impact on everyday activities.
War is a metaphor that we often use in relation to the fight against disease.
It seems to be necessary to identify the types of grammatical metaphor and characterize them explicitly in relation to the semantics as a whole.
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999), p. 244 suggest that: It seems to be necessary to identify the types of grammatical metaphor and characterize them explicitly in relation to the semantics as a whole.
