![A Metaphor Menu for People Living with Cancer](http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/melc/files/2019/11/green-470x140.jpg)
(Originally published on 20th November 2019 on the blog of the European Association for Palliative Care: https://eapcnet.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/a-metaphor-menu-for-people-living-with-cancer/) Researchers at Lancaster University have produced a ‘Metaphor…
![When talking about cancer, metaphors matter](http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/melc/files/2019/04/Cancerdictionarydefinitionresized-470x140.jpg)
(Originally posted on Rose Hendricks’ blog on 12 February 2019) by Rose Hendricks Cancer is hard to talk about. It’s serious, often frightening, and complicated….
![Whether you 'battle' cancer or experience a 'journey' is an individual choice](http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/melc/files/2019/06/the-conversation-2-644-1-470x140.jpg)
(Originally published in The Conversation on 25 March 2015) by Elena Semino The way we talk about illness matters. This is perhaps no more evident…
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(Originally on ehospice on 17 December 2014) by Elena Semino On 15 November 2014, Melanie Reid wrote passionately in The Times about the use of…
![Why language matters when discussing terminal illness and death](http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/melc/files/2019/04/Sfep-image-470x140.jpg)
(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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(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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(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’…
![Metaphor in End-of-Life Care](http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/melc/files/2019/04/EAPC-blog-post-3-470x140.jpg)
(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…