Linguist Elena Semino warns of the negative impact of war metaphors on cancer patients. The expert, who gave a lecture organised by UIC Barcelona’s Hestia Chair, has analysed 1.5 million words taken from online interviews and comments about cancer On 21 February, Elena Semino, a full professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University (United Kingdom), gave…
The call for the 2019 Hestia Awards, from the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care, promoted by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) and Fundación Hestia, aims to recognise the best initiatives in the field of research in health and social care and mental health, whose objective was to improve care of…
How patients talk: Metaphors, Cancer and the End of Life, seminar with Prof. Elena Semino, Univerity of Lancaster, UK. Dr Elena Semino, a full professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University (United Kingdom), is an internationally renowned teacher and researcher and an expert when it comes to analysing the language used by patients and health professionals to…