Routine Checkup: Cancer Metaphor Menu w/ Dr. Elena Semino

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dr. Elena Semino is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University in England. She also is the principal investigator on the ‘Metaphor, Cancer and End of Life Project’ aka the Cancer Metaphor Menu. You see, how we talk about illness matters. Especially when it comes to using metaphors. Not only do they help contextualize the experience of illness, it also plays a key role in communication. This week, smart person Dr. Semino brings the fellas along on a beautiful journey of metaphors.

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0:00.0	You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series?
0:05.5	You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes.
0:12.2	I get that.
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0:21.7	we all just can't stop thinking about.
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0:29.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:36.9	And we're sitting up here
0:38.3	We go to the kids get all in our eyes down
0:42.3	We go to the kids get all in order to
0:45.3	We go to things there all in order it is down
0:49.3	We want things there
0:52.3	And we're not yet
0:53.3	We go to place down All You're so not. Yeah. We're going to place them all the heart is.
0:56.9	We're going to be sitting down with Dr.
1:03.9	Elena today, Elena Simeino.
1:06.2	I'll start with this, Dr. Sameino.
1:09.0	Are you a medical doctor or a smart person doctor?
1:13.6	Definitely a smart person doctor.
1:16.6	I'm a doctor in linguistics, so that has got to be the smartest.
1:21.2	Oh, that's, I mean, that's like just below a mathematician, I would say.
1:26.5	That's right.
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