Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor
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Dennis Tay
Abstract
Mental health professionals and their patients often use figurative language like metaphors to depict complex cognitions and emotions that lie at the heart of personal crises during psychotherapy. While qualitative analysis of these metaphors is crucial, understanding usage patterns that develop over time requires complementary quantitative techniques. This chapter illustrates an exploratory log-linear analytic approach to the relationships between speakers, functions, targets, and phase of occurrence of metaphor vehicle terms over 29.5 hours of Chinese psychotherapy talk. The use of factor maps as a data visualization tool is also discussed. Variable associations are interpreted as usage patterns highlighting the nature of metaphor co-construction in psychotherapy. Key discussion points include interactions between time, institutional roles of speakers, and prevailing discussion topics.
Abstract
Mental health professionals and their patients often use figurative language like metaphors to depict complex cognitions and emotions that lie at the heart of personal crises during psychotherapy. While qualitative analysis of these metaphors is crucial, understanding usage patterns that develop over time requires complementary quantitative techniques. This chapter illustrates an exploratory log-linear analytic approach to the relationships between speakers, functions, targets, and phase of occurrence of metaphor vehicle terms over 29.5 hours of Chinese psychotherapy talk. The use of factor maps as a data visualization tool is also discussed. Variable associations are interpreted as usage patterns highlighting the nature of metaphor co-construction in psychotherapy. Key discussion points include interactions between time, institutional roles of speakers, and prevailing discussion topics.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
