METAPHORICAL TERMS IN ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY OF NATURE CONSERVATION

Abstract

From the cognitive perspective, the terms of the special field of nature conservation in protected areas formed metaphorically are looked into. The analysis of metaphorical terms in the researched terminological system has shown that their proportion to other terms is higher in the blocks, which are more addressed to general public, namely in the blocks of biodiversity conservation, environmental education, and sustainable development. Several source domains of metaphoric terms are identified, the most productive of them are distinguished: names of constructions and their parts, personal possessions, parts of human body, natural objects and phenomena. Terms-metaphors enable verbalization of complicated special concepts with the help of simpler and clearer image associations.

Keywords

• когнитивная лингвистика
• концептуальная метафора
• терминология
• метафорические термины
• cognitive linguistics
• conceptual metaphor
• terminology
• metaphorical terms