Metaphor in Languages for Special Purposes

Metaphor in Languages for Special Purposes

The Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Written Expert Language and Expert-Lay Communication in the Domains of Economics, Medicine and Computing. Dissertationsschrift

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Richardt, Susanne

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This work is a cognitive-linguistic investigation of metaphor in languages for special purposes (LSP). Metaphorization is (re-)defined as a transfer of mental schemata which are mapped from a familiar source domain to analogically structure a hard-to-grasp target domain. Metaphors are empirically evaluated in an investigation of academic writing as well as of popular-scientific texts in the domains of economics, medicine and computing. The empirical analysis provides evidence that even scientific reasoning recurs to metaphorical thinking as an information-processing strategy. Since metaphors appear to define the scientific paradigms which determine (but also constrain) the scope of scientific reasoning, the findings give rise to a discussion about the objectivity of science.

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ISBN/EAN978-3-631-53159-4

ProduktartBuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Peter Lang

Erscheinungsdatum18.01.2005

ReiheEuropäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne .41

Reihen-Nr..41

Seiten290 Seiten

SpracheDeutsch

Artikel-Nr.2299582

WarengruppeSprachwissenschaft

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