EAN: 9783631531594

METAPHOR IN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES - SU...

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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