This paper uses critical metaphor analysis to explore the main source domains of cognitive metaphors in online coming out advice for LGB individuals. It highlights how the ontological metaphor to come out (of the closet) is remetaphorised by a number of structural metaphors, especially coming out is movement. Noting that Queer theorists have critiqued coming out both as a concept and as an imperative, the paper argues that the coming out advice examined here perpetuates this discourse through the use of coming out is movement (esp. a journey) and coming out is conflict and suggests that other structural metaphors could be more useful to the readers of coming out advice.

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我们出来的隐喻：结构隐喻如何在互联网建议文本中出现

本文使用批判性隐喻分析来探索认知隐喻在 LGB 个人在线出柜建议中的主要来源领域。它强调了（从壁橱中）出来的本体隐喻如何被许多结构隐喻重新比喻，特别是出来是运动。注意到酷儿理论家批评出柜作为概念和命令，本文认为出柜建议通过使用出柜是运动（尤其是旅程）和出柜是冲突和表明其他结构隐喻可能对提出建议的读者更有用。