The Metaphor in Human Genome Discourse

Authors

  • Miriam Suárez Gallo

Keywords:

terminological metaphor, explicative metaphor, human genome

Abstract

Metaphors of terminological origin involved in term creation, and metaphors useful for explaining to experts and/or non-experts how the genetics system works, were identified and classified according to assumptions based on the conceptual metaphor theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and on the communicative terminology theory (Cabré, 1999), and also considering corpus linguistics (Parodi, 2007, 2008). The metaphors were taken from a textual corpus composed of several texts of different specialization level. A terminology extraction tool was applied to select the most relevant metaphor-based terms. In addition, a syntax analysis system was applied with the goal of searching contexts that supply explicative metaphors. It was concluded that metaphors of lexical origin and explicative metaphors show the same trend towards the selection of actions and states (or attributes). Both agree, basically, on the military metaphor (low frequency) and on the metaphor of language sciences (the most common).

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Author Biography

Miriam Suárez Gallo

Miriam Suárez Gallo treballa a l'Instituto de Ciencia Animal (ICA), centre de recerca de la República de Cuba, com a editora de la Revista Cubana de Ciencia Agrícola / Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science. L'any 2019 s'ha doctorat en lingüística a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, amb la tesi La metàfora en el discurso especializado del genoma humà, dins del grup IULATERM de l'Institut de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) i sota la direcció de Mercè Lorente.

Dossier: La normalització industrial i l'activitat terminològica Semblança: Bernat Quemada (1928-2018)

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Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Suárez Gallo, M. (2019). The Metaphor in Human Genome Discourse. Terminàlia, 2(20), 30–38. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/article/view/145979

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No. 20: December 2019

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