Metaphors in narratives about diabetes: cross-cultural differences and similarities

该项目的目标是分析2型糖尿病患者如何隐喻地谈论他们的疾病经历。本研究将通过收集和比较意大利语和英语的数据，探讨文化/语言差异是否可以激发和解释不同的隐喻使用。这项研究将着眼于言语中的隐喻（也可能是手势）。 参与者和方法：意大利和英国的2型糖尿病成年人的有目的的样本将用于本研究。将从南伦敦糖尿病队列（SOUL-D）招募英国受试者。参与者将被挑选出来，具有相似的社会文化背景和生活在城市地区。视频记录的半结构化访谈将在网上进行，随后进行转录。隐喻识别程序将被用来隔离语言隐喻。隐喻的定性综合分析将进行，具有主题的方法。目前正在与国王学院的同事讨论招募意大利参与者的问题，他们与罗马的合适看门人有联系。

The project objective is to analyse how people with type 2 diabetes metaphorically talk about their experience with their illness. The research will investigate whether cultural/linguistic differences can motivate and account for different metaphor use by collecting and comparing Italian and English data. The study will look at metaphors in speech (and potentially also gestures). PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS:A purposive sample of Italian and English adults with type 2 diabetes will be used for this research. English participants will be recruited from the South London Diabetes cohort (SOUL-D). Participants will be selected with similar socio-cultural background and living in urban areas.Video-recorded semi-structured interviews will be held online and subsequently transcribed. The Metaphor Identification Procedure will be used to isolate linguistic metaphors. A qualitative integrated analysis of metaphors will be carried out, featuring a thematic approach. Recruitment of Italian participants is currently under discussion with colleagues at King's who have links with suitable gatekeepers in Rome.