%0 Book
%A Susanne Richardt
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Metaphor in Languages for Special Purposes
%B The Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Written Expert Language and Expert-Lay Communication in the Domains of Economics, Medicine and Computing
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1099184
%X 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.
%K Englisch, Schriftsprache, Wirtschaftssprache, Metapher, Kognitive Linguistik, kognitive Metapher, Laiensprache, mentale Schemata, Medizin, Informatik, Expertensprache, Fachsprache
%G German