Journals
Authors:
Pérez-Sobrino, P. (Corresponding author); Semino, E.; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I.; et al.
Magazine:
METAPHOR AND SYMBOL
ISSN:
1092-6488
Year:
2022
Vol:
37
N°:
2
Pp:
127 - 139
The need to provide novel but meaningful ways to reason and talk about an unprecedented crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of creative metaphoric expressions in a variety of communicative settings. In order to investigate novel ways of conceptualizing the pandemic, we consider the metaphors included in the #ReframeCovid collection, a crowdsourced dataset of metaphors for the pandemic that rely on nonwar frames. Its heterogeneous makeup of multilingual and multimodal examples (to date, over 550 examples - monomodal and multimodal in 30 languages) offers a unique opportunity to explore the ways in which metaphors have been used creatively to describe different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. The patterns of metaphor creativity discussed in this paper include: creative realizations (verbal and visual) of wide-scope mappings, the use of one-off source domains, shifts in the valence of the source domain evoked, and the exploitation of source domains that are specific to particular discourse communities. The analysis of multimodal examples contributes to our understanding of the role of metaphor in sense-making and communication at a time of an extraordinary global crisis and will also provide new insights into metaphor creativity as a multidimensional phenomenon that integrates conceptual, discursive and cultural factors.
Magazine:
BMJ SUPPORTIVE & PALLIATIVE CARE
ISSN:
2045-435X
Year:
2021
Vol:
11
N°:
2
Pp:
156 - 162
OBJECTIVE:Cultural backgrounds and values have a decisive impact on the phenomenon of the wish to die (WTD), and examination of this in Mediterranean countries is in its early stages. The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of WTD and to characterise this phenomenon in our cultural context. METHODS:A cross-sectional study with consecutive advanced inpatients was conducted. Data about WTD (Assessing Frequency & Extent of Desire to Die (AFFED) interview) and anxiety and depression (Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-revised (ESAS-r)) were collected through two face-to-face clinical encounters. Data were analysed with descriptive statistics, ¿2 and analysis of variance. RESULTS:201 patients participated and 165 (82%) completed both interviews. Prevalence of WTD was 18% (36/201) in the first interview and 16% (26/165) in the second interview (p=0.25). After the first interview, no changes in depression (p=0.60) or anxiety (p=0.90) were detected. The AFFED shows different experiences within WTD: 11% of patients reported a sporadic experience, while 7% described a persistent experience. Thinking about hastening death (HD) appeared in 8 (22%) out of 36 patients with WTD: 5 (14%) out of 36 patients considered this hypothetically but would never take action, while 3 (8%) out of 36 patients had a more structured idea about HD. In this study, no relation was detected between HD and frequency of the appearance of WTD (p=0.12). CONCLUSIONS:One in five patients had WTD. Our findings suggest the existence of different experiences within the same phenomenon, defined according to frequency of appearance and intention to have death. A linguistically grounded model is proposed, differentiating the experiences of the 'wish' or 'desire' to die, with or without HD ideation.
Magazine:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES ON HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
ISSN:
1748-2623
Year:
2021
Vol:
16
N°:
1
Pp:
1955441
Background University students are the future professionals who will influence society. It is thus essential to improve students' understanding of palliative care (PC), especially those in the non-health field, to generate and encourage propitious opinions about PC. This study describes the perceptions of PC among university students from different disciplines. Method Qualitative exploratory study using virtual focus groups (FGs) and design thinking (DT) approach. An intentional sample of students from various disciplines, universities and cities from Spain were selected. Numerous researchers from different fields were involved in the discussion of the final thematic analysis. Results Four themes and seven subthemes were found: i) Students have an ambiguous understanding about PC; ii) PC is not a common issue for non-health students; ii) Students see PC as an important and necessary field; iii) Students build counter-narratives against PC myths, demonstrating PC brings key benefits into people's lives; iv) PC is a synonym of death. Conclusion Despite the fact that students do not know much about PC, the topic easily arouses reflection and positive discussion. Through the conversations they find positive values and arguments against misunderstanding. Students from different disciplines could be the target of innovative educational initia- tives and the social discussion on PC.
Authors:
Olza, Inés; Koller, V.; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I.; et al.
Magazine:
METAPHOR AND THE SOCIAL WORLD
ISSN:
2210-4070
Year:
2021
Vol:
11
N°:
1
Pp:
98 - 120
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments, health agencies, public institutions and the average around the world have made use of metaphors to talk about the virus, its effects and the measures needed to reduce its spread. Dominant among these metaphors have been war metaphors (e.g. battles, front lines, combat), which present the virus as an enemy that needs to be fought and beaten. These metaphors have attracted an unprecedented amount of criticism from diverse social agents, for a variety of reasons. In reaction, #ReframeCovid was born as an open, collaborative and non-prescriptive initiative to collect alternatives to war metaphors for COVID-19 in any language, and to (critically) reflect on the use of figurative language about the virus, its impact and the measures taken in response. The paper summarises the background, aims, development and main outcomes to date of the initiative, and launches a call for scholars within the metaphor community to feed into and use the #ReframeCovid collection in their own basic and applied research projects.
Magazine:
INTERFACE - COMUNICAÇÃO, SAUDE, EDUCAÇÃO.
ISSN:
1807-5762
Year:
2021
Vol:
25
Ppgs:
e200606
This study is an analysis on the Spanish average coverage of the Covid-19 crisis and the role of information on health and healthcare professionals within it. We studied the treatment given to healthcare sources and topics in news broadcasts released by Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) between December 31, 2019, and June 8, 2020. To this end, we conducted a quantitative content analysis on 452 news items from 21 news broadcasts. The results showed that debates on political issues were the main topics and politicians were the main sources, in the broadcasts analyzed, ahead of health issues and healthcare professionals. Our study thus confirms the lack of visibility of healthcare professionals in the television news coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in Spain.
Authors:
Valenzuela, J.; Canovas, C. P.; Olza, Inés; et al.
Magazine:
REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
ISSN:
1877-9751
Year:
2020
Vol:
18
N°:
2
Pp:
289 - 315
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that spatial domains are automatically activated when processing temporal expressions. Speakers conceptualize time as a straight line deployed along different axes (mostly sagittal, though also vertical). The use of the lateral axis, which cannot be lexicalized in any language, has nonetheless been attested in temporal tasks in laboratories using a variety of experiments. This leads to the question of what axes are actually at work when conceptualizing time in oral communication. The present study examines a large number of temporal expressions, taken from television shows, noting their associated co-speech gestures. Our results show that (1) speakers overwhelmingly use the lateral axis; (2) they are not performing simple space-to-time mappings, but are using instead a "timeline", a material anchor which is a far more complex construct and that can explain some of the intricacies and contextual variations shown in the pattern of results.
Magazine:
LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS
ISSN:
1387-6759
Year:
2020
Vol:
20
N°:
1
Pp:
58 - 83
Magazine:
PLOS ONE
ISSN:
1932-6203
The development of large-scale corpora has led to a quantum leap in our understanding of speech in recent years. By contrast, the analysis of massive datasets has so far had a limited impact on the study of gesture and other visual communicative behaviors. We utilized the UCLA-network Hen Lab multi-billion-word repository of video recordings, all of them showing communicative behavior that was not elicited in a lab, to quantify speech-gesture co-occurrence frequency for a subset of linguistic expressions in American English. First, we objectively establish a systematic relationship in the high degree of co-occurrence between gesture and speech in our subset of expressions, which consists of temporal phrases. Second, we show that there is a systematic alignment between the informativity of co-speech gestures and that of the verbal expressions with which they co-occur. By exposing deep, systematic relations between the modalities of gesture and speech, our results pave the way for the data-driven integration of multimodal behaviour into our understanding of human communication.
Magazine:
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
ISSN:
0309-2402
Year:
2019
Vol:
75
N°:
8
Pp:
1637 - 1647
Aim To explore the literature regarding how nursing narratives have been used to enhance reflective practice. Design Theoretical review. Data sources A literature search from 1990 - 2017 was conducted in PubMed, CINHAL and PsycINFO databases. Review methods After applying the selection criteria, 13 studies were identified. The quality of articles was evaluated. Results Three themes were identified as the main components of an ongoing narrative process based on looking back to past clinical experiences, creating spaces for dialogue and bringing the worlds of theory and practice closer together. Conclusions This review provides a forum for exploring the use of narratives to enhance reflective practice, which may lead to the acquisition of professional competences.
Authors:
Steen, F. F.; Hougaard, A.; Joo, J.; et al.
Magazine:
LINGUISTICS VANGUARD
ISSN:
2199-174X
Research into the multimodal dimensions of human communication faces a set of distinctive methodological challenges. Collecting the datasets is resource-intensive, analysis often lacks peer validation, and the absence of shared datasets makes it difficult to develop standards. External validity is hampered by small datasets, yet large datasets are intractable. network Hen Lab spearheads an international infrastructure for data-driven multimodal communication research, facilitating an integrated cross-disciplinary workflow. Linguists, communication scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists work together to develop research questions, annotate training sets, and develop pattern discovery and machine learning tools that handle vast collections of multimodal data, beyond the dreams of previous researchers. This infrastructure makes it possible for researchers at multiple sites to work in real-time in transdisciplinary teams. We review the vision, progress, and prospects of this research consortium.
Magazine:
PLOS ONE
ISSN:
1932-6203
Year:
2017
Vol:
12
N°:
10
Pp:
e0184806
Introduction The goal of palliative care (PC) is to improve the quality of life of terminal stage patients and their families. The subject frequently appears in the mass-average and this helps create a socially accepted identity. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse PC related news items appeared in the Spanish written average. Methodology A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed. Considering diffusion, scope and the range in publishing house policy criteria, four printed newspapers (PN) were selected, together with four exclusively digital average sources (DM). Through Mynews, a newspaper content depository, and the search tool for each DM website, articles published between 2009 and 2014 which included the terms "palliative care" and "palliative medicine" were sought. A questionnaire was created to characterise each article identified and a descriptive analysis was undertaken. Results A total of 627 articles were identified, of which 359 (57%) were published in PN (42% in the printed editions -PE- 16% in their online editions -OE-) and 268 (43%) in DM. In general, they appeared mainly in sections concerning Health (23%), Culture and Society (18%) and General/Home News (15%). In PE, just 2% were found in the Health section and nearly 70% in Culture and Society and General/Home News. Most of the articles were informative in nature and contained partner-political messages (90%). Statements by PC professionals were found in 35% of the articles and by politicians in 32%. The most frequent content was related to facing end of life (74%) and patient quality of life (70%). Conclusions The Spanish written average reflects the partner-political interest aroused by PC. Nevertheless, messages circulating about PC do not describe professional practice, or the contribution of the same for patients. Content more in line with the clinical practice might help contribute to the development of this new area of medicine.
Magazine:
JANUS (A CORUÑA)
ISSN:
2254-7290
Year:
2014
Vol:
Annex 2
Pgs:
85 - 98
Book chapters
Book:
training on equality: a approach since Law 3/2007, of March 22, on effective equality of women and men.
Place of Edition:
Cizur Menor (Navarra)
publishing house:
Aranzadi, Thomson-Reuters
Year:
2022
Págs:
35 - 61
Book:
Integrated perspectives for the analysis of orality.
publishing house:
publishing house University of Seville
Year:
2022
Págs:
131 - 156
Book:
The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative Meanings, Uses and Discursive Functions.
Place of Edition:
Amsterdam
publishing house:
John Benjamins
Year:
2017
Ppgs:
45 - 61
Book:
Semantics, lexicon and phraseology.
Place of Edition:
Frankfurt am Main
publishing house:
Peter Lang
Year:
2017
Pgs:
7 - 12
Book:
From speech of the media to the linguistics of speech
Place of Edition:
Berlin
publishing house:
Frank und Timme
Year:
2014
Pgs:
343 - 366
Book:
advertising 360º
Place of Edition:
Zaragoza
publishing house:
Ediciones de la Universidad San Jorge
Year:
2014
Ppgs:
305 - 315
This chapter explores, from a semiotic and cognitive perspective, the argumentative potential that the employment of what have been called "metaphors" and "multimodal metonymies" possesses in advertising . Starting from the premise that metaphor and metonymy are primarily shaped as cognitive or thought models, we analyse the manifestation that these models can have at the different levels of advertising language or, in other words, in the different "modes" or channels of speech that intervene in the construction of messages in this field. In this way, the frequent interweaving existing in advertising between visual metaphors/metonymies and verbal metaphors/metonymies is analysed, developing, in addition, a differentiated analysis of their articulation in the commercial and institutional advertising , on the one hand, and audiovisual and press, on the other. In line with this analysis, some of the relations that multimodal tropes tend to establish with other expressive resources that are habitual in the advertising
Book:
Didactics and translation of phraseological units.
Place of Edition:
Santiago de Compostela
publishing house:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Publications Service
Year:
2014
Págs:
115 - 130
Book:
Language Use in the Public Sphere: Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications.
Place of Edition:
Bern
publishing house:
Peter Lang
Year:
2014
Ppgs:
521 - 556
Book:
German-Spanish Kontrastive Phraseology
Place of Edition:
Tübingen
publishing house:
Stauffenburg Verlag
Year:
2014
Ppgs:
65 - 79
Book:
Phraseopragmatics
Place of Edition:
Berlin
publishing house:
Frank und Timme
Year:
2013
Pgs:
7 - 19
Book:
Phraseopragmatics
Place of Edition:
Berlin
publishing house:
Frank & Timme
Year:
2013
Pgs:
185 - 227
Book:
Grammar and speech. New contributions on discursive particles in Spanish.
Place of Edition:
Pamplona
publishing house:
University of Navarra Editions (EUNSA)
Year:
2011
Págs:
105 - 134
National and Regional
degree scroll:
From denial to disagreement : detection and analysis of multimodal patterns in audiovisual and interaction corpora in. laboratory
Code from transcript:
PGC2018-095703-B-I00
researcher principal:
Inés Olza Moreno
Funder:
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Call for proposals:
2018 AEI - MCIU - Projects for the Generation of the knowledge
Start date:
01/01/2019
End date:
31/12/2022
Amount awarded:
30.250,00€
Other funds:
ERDF funds
degree scroll:
Multimodal patterns of time representation.
Code from transcript:
FFI2015-70876-P
researcher principal:
Inés Olza Moreno
Funder:
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Call for proposals:
2015 MINECO EXCELLENCE. PROJECTS research and development
Start date:
01/01/2016
End date:
31/12/2018
Amount granted:
26.015,00€
Other funds:
ERDF funds
