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CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN HOUSE M.D.

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Cichmińska M., Topolewska M.
Acta Neophilologica
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2011
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vol. XIII
37-47
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The purpose of the present paper is to show how conceptual metaphor theory and blending theory or conceptual integration model can be complementary in analysis of language. We are going to discuss the language of the medical television series House M.D. (seasons 1-5) with the aim to demonstrate how the use of conceptual metaphors and blends reveals the mysterious workings of the human body, disease, diagnosis and treatment to laymen - the viewers. The article discusses six examples of blending paying special attention to the following features of blending operations: achieving goals of blending, namely providing human scale, global insight and coming up with a story, and inputs clashing.
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Conceptual metaphors in House M.D.

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Cichmińska M., Topolewska M.
Prace Językoznawcze
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2010
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issue 12
65-76
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The aim of the present paper is to analyse the conceptual metaphors in the language of medicine in the American television medical drama House M.D. The article deals with two problems: first, which of the instances of the metaphorical language of medicine, health, illness and treatment are applied by the doctors of the series, and secondly, to what extent those metaphors are commonly used in the language of medicine and in the general English.
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