• openAccess   Crisis Translation: Communicating Risks in Multilingual Settings. Research Seminar 

      Federici, Federico Marco; Montalt, Vicent (2020-06-23)
      Perception of risk is conditioned by emotive and cognitive responses (Ponari et al., 2015); humans avoid taking risks or engage with risks, because of our evolutionary adaptive abilities (we adapt to the environment and ...
    • openAccess   Discourses on the Edges of Life. Presentación de libro 

      Salvador, Vicent; Kotatkova, Adéla; Clemente, Ignasi; Lolas Stepke, Fernando (2020-12-21)
      Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an ...
    • openAccess   Metaphor in the experience of illness. Research Seminar 

      Semino, Elena; Montalt, Vicent (2020-12-14)
      Metaphor is well known to be a linguistic and cognitive tool that we use to think and talk about subjective, sensitive and complex experiences in terms of experiences that tend to be simpler and more intersubjectively ...
    • openAccess   Towards a translational medical humanities. Research Seminar 

      Engebretsen, Eivind; Montalt, Vicent (2021-02-24)
      In this paper I present an outline for a translational medical humanities approach where the humanities are not only an auxiliary to medical science and practice, but also an interdisciplinary space where both medicine and ...