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

Susanne Richardt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-53159-4 (ISBN)

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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.

lt;i>Contents: Theories of Metaphor - Metaphors and Models - Metaphors and Knowledge Representations - Languages for Special Purposes (LSP) - Expert Model versus Commonsense Model - Method of Investigating Metaphor in LSP - Metaphors in LSP.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.1.2005
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 413
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	deutsch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Communication • computing • Conceptual • domains • Economics • Englisch • Expert • Expertensprache • Fachsprache • Function • Informatik • Kognitive Linguistik • kognitive Metapher • Laiensprache • language • Languages • Medicine • Medizin • mentale Schemata • Metapher • Metaphor • Purposes • Richardt • Schriftsprache • Special • Susanne • Wirtschaftssprache • Written
ISBN-10	3-631-53159-1 / 3631531591
ISBN-13	978-3-631-53159-4 / 9783631531594
Zustand	Neuware