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Diese Masterarbeit untersucht kulturelle Repräsentationen von Krankheit und stellt die Frage nach den spezifischen Gründen von Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung von an Brustkrebs Erkrankten. Ausgehend von Freuds Theorie des Unheimlichen werden in dieser Arbeit Texte von Susan Sontag und Audre Lorde interpretiert. Die Analyse zeigt, dass Menschen, die den propagierten ästhetischen Normen nicht entsprechen, mit Angst und Argwohn begegnet wird, was auch ganz reale Auswirkungen auf den Umgang mit dieser Krankheit im medizinischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext hat. Krebs im Allgemeinen und Brustkrebs im Besonderen werden in Metaphern beschrieben, die den weiblichen Körper als unheimlich darstellen, der als grotesk und abstoßend versteckt und verborgen bleiben soll. Darstellungen von Autorinnen, die an Brustkrebs erkrankt überlebt haben, sind nicht nur wichtige kulturelle Zeugnisse dieses durch Metaphern von Horror und Ekel geprägten Diskurses von Ausgrenzung und Marginalisierung. Diese Selbstdarstellungen von Überlebenden sind mehr als nur eine Reaktion auf die ambivalente Faszination mit dem Hässlichen und Unerwünschten. Vielmehr ermöglichen uns diese Autorinnen eine Neu-Interpretation der in Bezug auf Brustkrebs verwendeten Metaphern, die dazu führt, dass der Umgang mit dieser Krankheit als kulturelles Konstrukt entlarvt werden kann. In der Folge führen diese Analysen zu einem besseren Verständnis der Darstellung des weiblichen Körpers und brechen somit das den Brustkrebs umgebende Schweigen. ; This thesis examines the cultural representation of illness and analyses possible reasons why breast cancer is still seen as a very specific medical phenomenon that even in contemporary society ostracizes and excludes people afflicted with this illness. Using Sigmund Freuds theory of the uncanny, texts by Susan Sontag and Audre Lorde are examined, and the conclusion is reached that people not fitting into the narrow frame of established aesthetics are met with fear and suspicion, which has very real consequencesin term of cancer research. Metaphors used to describe cancer in general, and breast cancer specifically, create the image of the female body as uncanny; something that ought to be silenced and stay hidden, and is consequently portrayed as grotesque. Accounts by authors as cancer survivors are important cultural representations of social exclusion and marginalization. Popular culture presents the ill often in ambivalent fascination of the ugly and undesirable with horror and disgust. An analysis of metaphors of cancer can reveal their cultural construction and lead to a new understanding of how womens bodies are presented, and break the silence that surrounds breast cancer. ; vorgelegt von Svetlana Vujovic ; Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers ; Zsfassung in dt. und engl. Sprache ; Graz, Univ., Masterarb., 2015 ; (VLID)416998

This paper analyzes Vietnamese online media coverage of recent social movements in Egypt, Thailand and Burma to examine how the communist party-state's media covers events abroad that could be seen as having metaphorical significance or potential for political change in Vietnam. It shows that different social movements receive varying levels of coverage with different emphases in terms of content. While commercialization of the state-run press in Vietnam has perhaps opened a neoliberal space for alternative representations of information, resulting in press coverage of international social movements that largely mirrors Western coverage, the Vietnamese media still carefully steers clear of any metaphorical meanings that these events may evoke for the party-state.

NAOMI SCHOR, Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University, is a founding coeditor of differences. Her most recent book is Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (Duke University Press, 1995). At present, she is working on a study of French universalism.

This research is a mixed-method study in which quantitative data is analysed in order to inform and enrich a stage of qualitative analysis. As such, in forming my research objectives, I have followed the recommendations on designing mixed-research objectives given in Tashakkori and Creswell (2007). General objectives: 1. To apply a pragmatic theory of metaphor (pragmatic IT) to political discourse 2. To investigate the use of active metaphorical utterances by potential populists 3. To investigate the use of active metaphorical utterances to communicate ideology These general objectives provoked more specific objectives: 1. To design and compile corpora which would facilitate the investigation of metaphorically used language by populists in the EU Parliament, 2014- 2019, and during the presidential election campaign in the USA, 2016 2. To develop a corpus methodology which would provide qualitative data that could inform pragmatic qualitative analysis 3. To develop a theoretical framework which would facilitate the analysis of ideological content as part of speaker's meaning 4. To evaluate the discourse of potential populists against their non-populist peers, in order to verify to what extent they can be considered populist 5. To manually annotate a corpus using pragmatic IT's identification criteria for active metaphorical utterances 6. To quantitatively compare populist and non-populist uses of active metaphorical utterances in my corpora 7. To qualitatively compare populist and non-populist uses of active metaphorical utterances for ideological purposes 8. To discuss possible interpretations of the quantitative data in light of the qualitative findings, and thereby generate hypotheses for future research. ; Tesis Univ. Granada.