The Pains That Kill – The Metaphorical Representation of Endometriosis in Women’s Stories

Agata Gołąb
In: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature · 2022 · vol. 45(7) , pp. 89–101 · doi:10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.4.89-101 · W4210601015
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This paper analyzes conceptual metaphors in women's Facebook posts about endometriosis to illustrate how these metaphors impact the perception and conceptualization of their pain.

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The paper analyzes how women’s stories about endometriosis use metaphorical representations, drawing on concepts from cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis to interpret language patterns around pain and illness. Using a qualitative discourse-based approach, the author highlights metaphorical framing—particularly the way endometriosis-related suffering is narrated and positioned in cultural language. A key limitation is that the provided text does not include the study’s sample description or detailed analytic procedure, so the scope and evidentiary basis cannot be fully assessed from the excerpt. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses specifically on the metaphorical representation of endometriosis in women’s stories.

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This paper aims to illustrate the big impact of conceptual metaphors on the perception and subsequent conceptualization of pain of women suffering from endometriosis. This article is based on a selection of posts published on a Facebook group that concerns the symptoms of endometriosis disease. The results of the analysis may contribute to a wider understanding of endometriosis.
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