Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

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PARTVI. TECHNICAL LANGUAGE ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN SPECIALIST VOCABULARY: COGNITIVELY MOTIVATED ONOMASIOLOGY BEHIND ENGLISH COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TERMINOLO ...

Specialist Vocabulary 235 borrowing of lexical items^1 (including the cases of calque, i.e. loan- translation),^2 but also of fo ...

Chapter Eleven 236 perplexing points of the new Christian religion, or the ever more and more sophisticated scientific and techn ...

Specialist Vocabulary 237 mechanisms relevant to the formation of English specialist vocabulary, as emphasized by (Baugh and Cab ...

Chapter Eleven 238 concept, and investigates by which different expressions the concept can be designated, or named” (Grondelaer ...

Specialist Vocabulary 239 conceptualization^14 phenomenon” (Cymbalista 2009: 23), grounded in the extralinguistic cognitive mech ...

Chapter Eleven 240 newsgroup, or unsolicited e-mails sent to multiple recipients, likely to contain commercial messages, etc.’ ( ...

Specialist Vocabulary 241 In consequence, it is hardly surprising that “[m]etaphors are ubiquitous in the user interfaces of tod ...

Chapter Eleven 242 Johnson (1980). An example may be head (also combined head or read/ write head), with its specialized sense o ...

Specialist Vocabulary 243 allows the user to read Usenet newsgroups, downloads news articles from the newsgroups selected by the ...

Chapter Eleven 244 history of the vocabulary of a language cannot be studied independently of the social, economic, and cultural ...

Specialist Vocabulary 245 Probing into the above-mentioned field of PROFESSIONS/OCCUPATIONS (and its counterpart conceptual cate ...

Chapter Eleven 246 fundamental to the construal of the frame or scenario^45 of READING. These domains seem to include, mainly, a ...

Specialist Vocabulary 247 into the digital information a computer is capable of understanding and displaying’ or optical charact ...

Chapter Eleven 248 of the specialist sense of ‘a hardware device that enables reading and writing the data on a memory card, suc ...

Specialist Vocabulary 249 Then, through another similarity-of-function metaphor (i.e. COMPUTER SOFTWARE IS A WORKER) founded on ...

Chapter Eleven 250 1292 “[...] del viscounte qi nous volums qe soit soen countreroullour en tut soen office.” 1441 “Sir Thomas S ...

Specialist Vocabulary 251 prints information from a computer’, as in the case of computer printer, impact printer, ink-jet print ...