ZUR POIETISCHEN FUNKTION VON ANALOGIEN UND METAPHERN IM INTERDISKURSIVEN BLICKPUNKT DER TRANSPLANTATIONSMEDIZIN

• Authors: Mikuláš Roman

Title variants

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On the poietic function of analogies and metaphors in the interdiscursive perspective of transplant medicine

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The subject of the analysis is the novel Leben (Life, 2013) by the German author David Wagner. In fact, although designed as a novel, the book is more precisely an autopathography, which presents a personal and authentically reflective look at the experience of one’s own illness and describes the medical intervention, the surgical transplantation of a new liver. The medical specialist discourse plays an essential role in this context. Medical knowledge and personal reflections overlap like those areas of meaning from which analogies often emerge and in which metaphors have their origin. In the following, it is a matter of uncovering those areas that are combined to create analogies in order to describe their communicative function on the basis of their possible implementation in the form of metaphors (also known as between-domain analogies). Particular consideration is given to the role of the medical specialist discourse and the question of how it shapes the analogisation and metaphorization of one’s own experience of illness and the experience of organ transplantation. In doing so, we rely largely on the analytical model based on the theory of figurative language by Hans Georg Coenen.

Keywords

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METAPHOR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST DISCOURSE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE; HANS GEORG COENEN; DAVID WAGNER

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 117 - 130

Contributors

author

Mikuláš Roman

• Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-2535

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2021.13.4.10