Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

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or satisfy the ever-growing need for new terms within the field. This is
additionally enabled by figurative expressions assuming more generic
meaning or several different meanings within the field, thus further
satisfying the demand for creating new terminology. While we believe that
discourse metaphor is an important apparatus for analyzing the figurative
language use analyzed in the paper, it yet remains to be seen how the
construct can account for cases of multiple mappings between two
particular domains such as HUMAN BODY and MACHINERY, and
comprehensively accommodate the cases into its framework.


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