' Cancer Is like Teenagers': Figurative Comparisons in Surgical Consultations for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Author

Keith Cox, Illinois State UniversityFollow

Date of Award

6-2-2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Sociology

First Advisor

Virginia Gill

Abstract

This thesis reports findings from a conversation analytic study that investigate how surgeons describe cancer to early-stage breast cancer patients during preoperative consultations. Drawing upon audio recordings of actual consultations, this study examines one surgeon's use of a type of figurative expression, an analogy, to describe what cancer is and how it behaves. My analysis focuses on the role that this analogy plays in the activities that unfold in one phase of the surgical consultation, and reveals some social organizational dimensions of figurative expressions that have gone unexplored in prior research.

Comments

Imported from ProQuest Cox_ilstu_0092N_10566.pdf

Recommended Citation

Cox, Keith, "' Cancer Is like Teenagers': Figurative Comparisons in Surgical Consultations for Early-Stage Breast Cancer" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 428.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/428

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2015.Cox.K

Page Count

66