290 pages. Series: Europaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 413. Publisher's printed paper wrappers fresh, a horizontal impression to the front panel, closed tear to head of spine; presentation inscription from author at half title, else contents as new. 390 grams.

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Title: 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
Publisher: Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3631531591
ISBN 13: 9783631531594
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 390 grams

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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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