Published: 2024-04-19

The metaphor of illness as a way of depicting social processes in the discourse of Russian radical Orthodoxy

Piotr Zemszał Logo ORCID

Abstract

Metaphors associated with the concept of disease have been used in various discourses for centuries to depict social processes that, in the opinion of the sender, require urgent corrective action. It became particularly popular around the mid-nineteenth century due to the rapid development of interest in the biological and medical sciences, and later due to the strong influence of a materialist and sensualist view of the world. Interestingly, this type of metaphor is also intensively exploited by denominational discourse, in the case of this study the discourse of radical Russian Orthodoxy. Almost 800 texts were analysed for the occurrence of the conceptual metaphor CHOROBA; the identified realisations were divided into semantic categories corresponding to different aspects of the reality described in the discourse.  It turns out that the disease metaphor finds a very wide application in the studied discourse, being an important means of shaping the audience's attitudes also in the case of religious discourse.

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Zemszał, P. (2024). The metaphor of illness as a way of depicting social processes in the discourse of Russian radical Orthodoxy. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (2 (186), 117–133. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.16349

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No. 2 (186) (2024)
Published: 2024-04-22


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

Publisher
Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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