Cognitive Perspective of Lexical Metaphor in Scientific Language

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10.2991/erse.2013.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

lexical metaphor, cognition, scientific language, function

Abstract

Contemporary metaphor research offers a cognitive view to help understand the existence of metaphor used in scientific language. Different from literary metaphor, used as a decorative device, lexical metaphor in scientific language has its unique features. And it serves not decorative function any more, but naming function, exegetical or pedagogical function and theory-constitutive function. With the understanding of reasons of lexical metaphor used in scientific language, people can have a deeper understanding of language and its metaphorical uses.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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