Being in the same boat, in two ways

In research on conflicts, the systematic study of metaphors is playing an increasingly prominent role. context a U.S. – Swiss–Hungarian international collaboration investigating conflicts through interviews with healthcare professionals, present chapter analyzes linguistic and conceptual in Hungarian interviews. The theoretical background for analysis provided by cognitive theory metaphor, while its methodology based MIPVU.Moving away from representations, this aims to analyze role conceptualization, interpretation, management conflicts. presents general, conventionalized orientational ontological conflict, also exploring core metaphor families competition cooperation as well correlations between power structures.