The Status of Interdisciplinary Metaphor in Specialized Lexis

Abstract

The assertion we start from in our study is that in specialized languages metaphor is a figure of reason rather than a figure of speech. The general objective of the study is researching the interdisciplinary status of specialized metaphor – terminological and conceptual – by making reference to the hard core of terminology. Derived objectives: comparative research of the degree of scientificity of interdisciplinary metaphor, at the hard core of lexis, following metaphorical transfer; descriptive-linguistic and cognitive research of the general and particular conceptual features that are preserved within this type of internal terminology. The approach is descriptive-contrastive.

Keywords

• central sphere
• interdisciplinary metaphor
• multilingual
• terminology