Chapter 11. Conceptual types of terminological metaphors in marine biology

Gómez-Moreno, José Manuel Ureña

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“…In spite of the preconceived idea that specialized registers are largely free from figurative expressions, expanding research gives proof that metaphor is widely used in specific text-types (Deignan et al, 2013): in the fields of politics and economics (Musolff, 2004;Charteris-Black, 2005); in medicine (Salager-Meyer, 1990;Faber & Márquez, 2004); in biology (Ureña, 2012;Knudsen, 2015) are just a few examples. In this respect, legal discourse is not an exception.…”

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Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

2018

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Immigration metaphors in a corpusAbstract: Metaphor is central to human understanding and communication. It pervades our everyday language and also abounds in specialized discourse, with legal language not being an exception. This is particularly relevant since metaphors are powerful framing tools able to affect our worldview. With the aim of exploring the use that EAL law undergraduate students make of metaphorical expressions as well as their awareness of their connotations, a learner corpus was compiled and qualitatively analyzed. Results have shown that learners, like native speakers, rely on the use of conceptual metaphors such as migration is a natural force, states are containers or immigrants are a threat to describe immigration issues. This exploratory study has also revealed that learners are not always conscious of the negative slant that metaphors may convey and that raising their awareness is key to enhance critical thinking.Keywords: corpus linguistics; conceptual metaphor; metaphorical awareness; legal discourse; EAL learners.Resumen: La metáfora es un elemento central de la comunicación y la comprensión humana. Abunda en el lenguaje cotidiano y también en el de especialización, no siendo una excepción el discurso legal. Este hecho es relevante ya que las metáforas nos permiten enmarcar la realidad desde diversas perspectivas que condicionan nuestra perCastaño Castaño, Emilia; Laso Martín, Natalia Judith & Verdaguer Clavera, Isabel. 2017. "Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners' metaphorical production and awareness". Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics 22: 245-272. doi: 10.7203/qf.22.11310 cepción del mundo. Con el objetivo de explorar el uso que los estudiantes de Derecho con inglés como lengua adicional (EAL) hacen de las metáforas y de determinar si son conscientes de sus connotaciones, se compiló y analizó cualitativamente un corpus de aprendices. Los resultados han demostrado que los aprendices al igual que los hablantes nativos utilizan metáforas conceptuales tales como la inmigración es una fuerza natural, los estados son contenedores o los inmigrantes son una amenaza para describir el fenómeno de la inmigración. Este estudio exploratorio también subrayó la importancia de que los aprendices sean conscientes de la carga negativa de algunas metáforas para promover el pensamiento crítico.Palabras clave: metáfora conceptual; conciencia metafórica; discurso legal; aprendices de EAL; lingüística de corpus.

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Section: Immigration Metaphors In Legal Discoursementioning

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Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

2018

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Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction

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2020

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With the cognitive shift since the 1990s, metaphorical terms have become a recurrent theme in terminological studies. However, how they actually function in science communication has not been fully explored. The issue becomes more pressing today since the exponential expansion of knowledge has heightened our awareness of the need for new designations. And the metaphorical approach is often an economic choice. To gain more insights into the mechanism of metaphorical terms, the authors of the present study will reexamine their functional peculiarities by looking at their linguistic, cognitive and communicative facets respectively. The multidimensional functions of metaphorical terms as exemplified by those in economics are described in detail. More importantly, their dynamic functional potentialities as well as the interplay among them are further discussed.

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Chapter 11. Conceptual types of terminological metaphors in marine biology

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Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

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Multidimensionality, dynamicity, and complexity

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