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.