ABSTRACT This work analyzes the conceptual metaphors of depression in a corpus of 23 blogs written in Catalan by people suffering major depressive disorder. Its main aim was comparative, in order to check whether metaphors detected in previous studies were also used in a new genre and a new language. Their use was confirmed, thus reinforcing the metaphors’ relevance and their conceptual (i.e. non language-dependent) nature. Furthermore, the study broadens the scope of the conceptualization of life with depression with a set of metaphors not attested before, mostly related to social, communicative and medical factors. The results suggest that the containment and constraint that characterize a crucial part of the metaphorical discourse of depression are not only imposed by the disorder itself, but also by contextual factors (such as stigma, lack of communication, or the medical practice perceived as a repressive power) that can have a significant impact on the lives people with depression lead. They also suggest that the very nature of blogging as a genre allows these people to provide more accurate depictions of their condition, thus providing a more comprehensive account of metaphors of life with depression and potentially empowering them.

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抑郁症的隐喻。研究在博客中发表的关于抑郁症的第一人称叙述

摘要 这项工作分析了重度抑郁症患者用加泰罗尼亚语撰写的 23 篇博客语料库中抑郁症的概念隐喻。其主要目的是比较，以检查在以前的研究中发现的隐喻是否也用于新的体裁和新的语言。它们的使用得到确认，从而加强了隐喻的相关性和它们的概念（即非语言依赖）性质。此外，该研究通过一组以前未证实的隐喻扩大了抑郁症生活的概念化范围，这些隐喻主要与社会、交流和医学因素有关。结果表明，表征抑郁症隐喻性话语关键部分的遏制和约束不仅是由疾病本身强加的，还受上下文因素（如耻辱、缺乏沟通，或医疗实践被视为一种压制力量），这可能对抑郁症患者的生活产生重大影响。他们还认为，博客作为一种体裁的本质使这些人能够更准确地描述他们的状况，从而提供更全面的抑郁症生活隐喻，并可能赋予他们权力。