Conceptual metaphors as an organisational framework of the specialist language of IT : : an analysis of cloud computing terminology / / Magdalena Krawiec.

• Superior document: Interdisziplinäre Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik
• VerfasserIn: Krawiec, Magdalena,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V & R Unipress,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Interdisziplinäre Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Typographic conventions -- Table of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theories of terminology -- 1.0 Introductory -- 1.1 Wüster's General Terminology Theory -- 1.2 Socioterminology Theory -- 1.3 Cabré's Communicative Theory -- 1.4 Temmerman's Sociocognitive Terminology Theory -- 1.5 Faber's Frame-based terminology -- 1.6 Concluding remarks -- Chapter Two: Specialist languages -- 2.0 Introductory -- 2.1 A historical account of specialist languages -- 2.2 Specialist language as a three-dimensional structure -- 2.2.1 Specialist linguistic expressions -- 2.2.2 Specialist knowledge -- 2.2.3 Specialist (professional) practices performed in professional settings -- 2.3 Concluding remarks -- Chapter Three: Approaches to the study of conceptual metaphor and its extensions -- 3.0 Introductory -- 3.1 From metaphor in language to metaphor in thought -- 3.2 Conceptual and Contemporary Metaphor Theory -- 3.2.1 The multi-level view of conceptual metaphor -- 3.2.2 The nature of conceptual mappings between conceptual domains -- 3.2.3 Image schemas and embodied experience -- 3.3 Conceptual Blending and mental spaces -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter Four: Methodology -- 4.1 Purposes, research questions and research hypotheses -- 4.2 Corpus -- 4.3 The procedure for conceptual metaphor analysis and other methodological guidelines -- 4.3.1 Complementary methodological remarks -- 4.4 Limitations and delimitations of the methodology -- Chapter Five: Analysis of conceptual metaphors within the specialist language of information technology -- 5.0 Introductory -- 5.1 cloud computing is a person -- 5.1.1 cloud computing is a person with emotions -- 5.1.2 cloud computing is a person with roles/occupations -- 5.1.3 cloud computing relations are kinship relations.

5.1.4 cloud computing lifecycle is human lifecycle -- 5.1.5 cloud computing activity is human activity -- 5.1.5.1 interacting with the cloud is conversing with a person -- 5.1.5.2 using the cloud is outsourcing services -- 5.1.5.3 using the cloud is renting a warehouse -- 5.1.6 the condition of cloud computing is the health of a person -- 5.1.7 parts of cloud computing are the parts of a person -- 5.1.8 the function of cloud computing is the function of a person -- 5.2 cloud computing is an animal -- 5.3 cloud computing is competition -- 5.4 cloud computing is combat -- 5.5 cloud computing is committing a crime -- 5.6 cloud computing is defence -- 5.7 cloud computing is espionage -- 5.8 cloud computing is intrusion -- 5.9 cloud computing is outer space/the cosmos -- 5.10 cloud computing is a machine with modes of operation -- 5.11 cloud computing is food/cuisine -- 5.12 cloud computing is vogue -- 5.13 virtual space is physical space -- 5.13.1 the cloud is an inhabitable area -- 5.13.2 virtual process is physical process -- 5.13.3 virtual movement is physical movement -- 5.13.4 Image-schematic representation of virtual space -- 5.14 Concluding remarks -- Conclusions -- References.