Why language matters when discussing terminal illness and death

Why language matters when discussing terminal illness and death

(Originally on the Society for Editors and Proofreaders blog on 16 January 2015) by Zsófia Demjén How do people talk about the end-of-life and death?…

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‘Fight’ metaphors for cancer revisited: Are they always bad?

‘Fight’ metaphors for cancer revisited: Are they always bad?

(Originally on the Corpus Approaches to Social Science blog on 05 March 2014) by the ‘Metaphor in End-of-Life Care’ project team Recent media controversy over…

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‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths in interviews with hospice managers

‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths in interviews with hospice managers

(Originally on the European Association for Palliative Care blog on 26 May 2013) by Elena Semino, Veronika Koller and Zsófia Demjén What is a ‘good’…

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Metaphor in End-of-Life Care

Metaphor in End-of-Life Care

(Originally on the European Association for Palliative Care blog on 29 November 2012) by Zsófia Demjén On 1 September, academics from three faculties at Lancaster…

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