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Title: | Quantitative metaphor usage patterns in Chinese psychotherapy talk | Authors: | Tay, D | Issue Date: | 12-Aug-2017 | Source: | Communication and medicine, 12 Aug. 2017, v. 14, no. 1, p. 51-68 | Abstract: | The study of metaphor in psychotherapy is undergoing a 'contextual turn', shifting emphasis from global mechanisms underlying metaphors and therapeutic change to their naturally occurring properties in therapist-patient interaction. While there have been rich qualitative and contextual descriptions of metaphors in psychotherapy, complementary quantitative accounts of metaphor usage patterns over larger amounts of talk have been less forthcoming. This paper reports metaphor usage patterns as associations between key contextual variables which characterize metaphors in a dataset of Chinese psychotherapy talk. A total of 2893 metaphor vehicle terms from 29.5 hours of talk were coded for SPEAKER, FUNCTION, TARGET, PHASE OF THERAPY, and DYAD. A log-linear analysis revealed significant higher order associations (DYAD∗TARGET∗FUNCTION∗PHASEMergeCell DYAD∗FUNCTION∗PHASE∗ SPE AKERMergeCell TARGET∗FUNCTION∗SPEAKER), discussed as usage patterns which bear implications for the psychotherapeutic application of metaphor. Limitations and future research directions are discussed. Copyright | Keywords: | Chinese context Counseling Log-linear analysis Metaphor Psychotherapy Quantitative methods |
Publisher: | Equinox Publishing Ltd. | Journal: | Communication and medicine | ISSN: | 1612-1783 | EISSN: | 1613-3625 | DOI: | 10.1558/cam.27688 | Rights: | Copyright Equinox Publishing Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Tay, D. (2017). Quantitative metaphor usage patterns in Chinese psychotherapy talk. Communication and Medicine, 14(1), 51–68 is available at https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.27688. |
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