- 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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