Pain: Metaphor, body, and culture in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries

Title: Pain: Metaphor, body, and culture in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
Creator: Bourke, Joanna
Relation: Rethinking History Vol. 18, Issue 4, p. 475-498
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2014.893660
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: This article explores the relationship between metaphorical languages, body, and culture, and suggests that such an analysis can reveal a great deal about the meaning and experience of pain in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It uses concepts within embodied cognition to speculate on how historians can write a history of sensation. Bodies are actively engaged in the linguistic processes and social interactions that constitute painful sensations. Language is engaged in a dialogue with physiological bodies and social environments. And culture collaborates in the creation of physiological bodies and metaphorical systems.
Subject: pain; metaphor; body; culture; history; British; American; cognitive linguistics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1357546
Identifier: uon:31932
Identifier: ISSN:1364-2529
Language: eng
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