Metaphor and Figurative Meaning Construction in Science and Technology (English and Spanish)

Roldán-Riejos, Ana; Cuadrado, Georgina

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.348

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“…Metaphor has a multimodal nature and therefore can appear in different scenarios activating various perception codes." [19].…”

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Metaphoric Term as Translation Unit of Technical Text

Fedyuchenko

2018

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The article considers the technical metaphoric term as a dynamic cognitive structure, which contains a fragment of the global technical picture. The author starts with a critical review of the existing approaches to the definition of a translation unit and suggests that this term should be considered as a dynamic unit of the text’s semantic structure. In this regard, the procedure is not limited to a simple extraction of a translation unit in the source text, but it leads to a complex linguistic analysis at the pre-translation stage. To extract the translation unit, the author suggests using a criterion of an unexpected collocation, which is why the metaphoric term is the subject of the study. Having justified the approach, the author presents the stages of the carried out linguistic analysis. Based on the results, the author formed fourteen thematic groups and described typical collocations of the structural elements. In the course of the analysis, the following functions of the metaphoric terms were singled out: 1) operational function, 2) shaping function, 3) intermediary function, 4) transfer function, 5) comprehension function, and 6) interpretation function. Such integrated approach to the analysis of the translation unit ensures adequate translation and minimizes critical translation errors.

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“…Metaphor has a multimodal nature and therefore can appear in different scenarios activating various perception codes." [19].…”

Section: Metaphoric Term As a Translation Unitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaphoric Term as Translation Unit of Technical Text

Fedyuchenko

2018

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“…This present discussion about the 'in' metaphorical preposition is motivated by Lakoff andJohnson's seminal work published in 1980/2003 as well as by the many publications written by other scholars who are also inspired by it. Investigations on metaphors have been conducted in many different fields of research, such as in behavioral science (Pendrous et al, 2020), artificial intelligence (Carbonell, Sánchez-Esguevillas, & Carro, 2016), general science (Beger, 2016;Roberts et al, 2019;Roldán-Riejos & Cuadrado, 2015), psychotherapy (Killick, Curry, & Myles, 2016), psychology (Bultmann et al, 2019;Raja, 2019), biology (Castellane & Paternotte, 2018;Kashkan et al, 2015), news discourse (Mujagić, 2018), politics (Alousque, 2015;Chan & Yap, 2015;Filipczuk-Rosińska, 2016;Yi, Koenig, & Roland, 2019), demographics (Catalano & Musolff, 2019), translation studies (Egan, 2015), comics (Domínguez, 2015;Forceville & Paling, 2018;Szawerna, 2018;Tasić & Stamenković, 2015), television series (Izgarjan & Djurić, 2016;Terry, 2019), computer programming (Pérez-Marín et al, 2020), and music (Mishankina & Zheleznyakova, 2015;Pannese, Rappaz, & Grandjean, 2016).…”

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I am falling in love, Ouch!: Ontological metaphors at work

Roselani

2020

Lingua Cultura

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The research aimed to track the distribution of in metaphors and explore their ontological function in the abstracts of English research articles in the sub-disciplines of theoretical linguistics and pragmatics. The lack of empirical evidence on the subject had become the inspiration to base the research on a corpus. The corpus consisted of 40 research article abstracts; 20 from Journal of Linguistics and another 20 from Journal of Pragmatics. By using a quantitative method, the results show that theoretical linguistics abstracts are more densely populated with ‘in’ metaphors. However, in terms of in-preposition phrase topic complement variations, they are less varied. Qualitatively, the results confirm a notion proposed by Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) that ‘in’ metaphors function cognitively by providing ontological status to abstract objects. Their existence proves to play an important role in academic texts.

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