Adopting Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) classification as its theoretical framework, the present descriptive-analytical study examined conceptual metaphors in the three disciplines of physics, medicine, and linguistics seeking answers to such inquiries as ‘how conceptual metaphors are substantiated in academic language’ and ‘how frequently they occur in the three disciplines mentioned. For the purpose of this study, 21 abstracts from among research articles written over the two years of 2017 and 2018 were initially selected. Their lexical ranges were then determined to be 1486, 1102, and 1420 items belonging to the fields of medicine, physics, and linguistics, respectively. Conceptual metaphors were then identified in each sentence, the total frequency of which was determined at 305 (i.e., 7.6% of the total lexical ranges), all of which were recognized as ontological metaphors. In addition to these, 129 metaphors were recognized as belonging to the structural and 21 to the orientational class of metaphors. Results indicate that metaphors have a higher frequency of occurrence in the linguistics discipline than in the other two fields investigated.
- حق عضویت دریافتی صرف حمایت از نشریات عضو و نگهداری، تکمیل و توسعه مگیران میشود.
- پرداخت حق اشتراک و دانلود مقالات اجازه بازنشر آن در سایر رسانههای چاپی و دیجیتال را به کاربر نمیدهد.