Detail META-CITEC: a cognitive semantic database of conceptual metaphor in science and technology   Oleh:  Esclapez G., Cuadrado ; Garcia, Duque ; Escribano P., Duran Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics: 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh UK, 6-8 September 2007, page 21-24. Fulltext: 21-24. georgina_cuadrado_esclapez.pdf (156.8KB) Isi artikel This paper describes the on line database META-CITEC, which develops a cognitive semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions and conceptual mappings in science and technology. This work is grounded on Cognitive Linguistics and the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1993), which studies mental operations and structures involved in language, meaning and reason. Although Cognitive Theory of Metaphor has been already applied to scientific language in different works (Boyd 1993, Knudsen 2003), more studies need to be conducted to establish the complex interactions within metaphorical networks in this field. The building process of METACITEC has been carried out in three phases: firstly, scientific and technical terms have been analysed from different reliable databases and sources by selecting those with a clear metaphorical word-building; next, the most frequent sub- technical terms have been searched by means of the “Wordsmith” programme; finally, metaphorical terms have been categorised into the scientific databank according to the conceptual metaphors they manifest, establishing the source domains and the target domains, as well as the networks involved. The results of this paper shed light on the hypothesis of the metaphor-based conceptualization of scientific language, contributing to establish the role of metaphor in constructing new meaning within science and technology. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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