Co-constructing 'crisis' with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk

Dennis Tay

doi:10.1075/dapsac.87.08tay

Co-constructing 'crisis' with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk

Dennis Tay^*

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Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

Mental health professionals and their patients often use figurative language like metaphors to depict complex cognitions and emotions that lie at the heart of personal crises during psychotherapy. While qualitative analysis of these metaphors is crucial, understanding usage patterns that develop over time requires complementary quantitative techniques. This chapter illustrates an exploratory log-linear analytic approach to the relationships between speakers, functions, targets, and phase of occurrence of metaphor vehicle terms over 29.5 hours of Chinese psychotherapy talk. The use of factor maps as a data visualization tool is also discussed. Variable associations are interpreted as usage patterns highlighting the nature of metaphor co-construction in psychotherapy. Key discussion points include interactions between time, institutional roles of speakers, and prevailing discussion topics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Language of Crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses
Editors	Mimi Huang, Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	231-253
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027204967
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.87.08tay
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
Volume	87
ISSN (Print)	1569-9463

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Gender Studies
Social Psychology
Communication
Language and Linguistics
Sociology and Political Science
Linguistics and Language

Keywords

Chinese context
Counseling
Metaphor
Psychotherapy

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Tay, D. (2020). Co-constructing 'crisis' with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk. In M. Huang, & L.-L. Holmgreen (Eds.), The Language of Crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses (pp. 231-253). (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture; Vol. 87). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.87.08tay

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The Language of Crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses. ed. / Mimi Huang; Lise-Lotte Holmgreen. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. p. 231-253 (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture; Vol. 87).

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