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June 15, 2026KairosOpen Access

Metaphor as a means of communicating emotional experience (death) in religious discourse

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MSMaja Séguin

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Empirical analysis reveals how metaphors shape mourning experiences in religious contexts, indicating their significance in emotional communication.

Key Points

  • This research aims to analyze how metaphors facilitate the expression of emotional experiences related to death in religious discourse.
  • Analyzed a corpus of 68 Facebook posts from a memorial page.
  • Identified and categorized conceptual metaphors within the narratives of mourning.
  • Examined the distribution and functions of these metaphors in religious contexts.
  • Participants used metaphors to structure their experiences of death, embodying emotions and perceptions of time.
  • Metaphors reflected attitudes toward self and the role of religion in mourning.
  • Findings indicate that universal metaphorical patterns align with specific religious meanings in discourses of loss.

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Maja Séguin (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2f96eca1cfeec4908280a9https://doi.org/10.32862/k.20.1.2
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