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
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631531591
ISBN-13
9783631531594
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
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GB
Publication Date
Jan 18th, 2005
Print length
290 Pages
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EnglishSemantics, discourse analysis, etcSemantics, discourse analysis, stylisticsLanguage teaching and learning material and courseworkLanguage learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciationELT: learning material & courseworkELT grammar, vocabulary & pronunciationCommunication studies
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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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