CfP: Women and metaphors. Terminology, lexicon and representations of women's health in biomedical discourse

Journal: Culture, Language and Representation (CLR)

Guest editors: Chelo Vargas-Sierra (University of Alicante, IULMA) and Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Deadline for submission of articles: 15 December 2023

This monographic issue will focus on the use of metaphors in women's health issues in the biomedical field. Articles should address different lexical, discursive and metaphorical issues in topics such as menopause, menstruation, pregnancy, eating disorders, mental health, hysterectomy, sexually transmitted infections, etc. with the aim of showing how linguistic choices shape our understanding and perception of women's health problems.

Specifically, this issue aims to shed light on how metaphors and other cognitive or conceptual elements are used to discuss these women's health issues in the medical field and how they can facilitate or hinder effective communication and understanding, or how they can project a negative (or positive) view or representation of women. Through this detailed analysis of issues affecting women, the special issue will reveal how women's health problems are addressed and communicated in different textual types (research articles, surveys, popular magazines, etc.) from a cognitive or conceptual point of view.

This proposal is part of the research project "Digitalisation, processing and online publication of open multilingual terminological resources with a gender perspective in the digital society (TED2021-130040B-C21)", funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation / State Research Agency (10.13039/501100011033) and by the European Union "NextGenerationEU/PRTR".