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by  José M

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

DOCTORAL THESIS
METAPHOR IN SPECIALISED LANGUAGE:
AN ENGLISH-SPANISH COMPARATIVE STUDY
IN MARINE BIOLOGY

JOSÉ MANUEL UREÑA GÓMEZ-MORENO

GRANADA, 2011
Editor: Editorial de la Universidad de Granada
Autor: José Manuel Ureña Gómez Moreno
D.L.: GR 1871-2011
ISBN: 978-84-694-1298-5

METAPHOR IN SPECIALISED LANGUAGE:
AN ENGLISH-SPANISH COMPARATIVE STUDY
IN MARINE BIOLOGY

Doctoral Thesis
Submitted by PhD candidate José Manuel Ureña Gómez-Moreno to the
University of Granada to obtain the Doctor Europaeus Mention

Approved and signed Approved and signed
by by
Maribel Tercedor Sánchez Pamela Faber Benítez

Director of the Thesis Co-Director of the Thesis

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING
2011

To my beloved parents, José Manuel and Sonsoles

“You need an ‘as if’ to look at the world.
You need an ‘as if’ to explain the world”.
Horace Romano Harré, philosopher and
psychologist.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................... xv
INDEX OF TABLES ........................................................................................................... xvii
INDEX OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... xix
0. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 23
0.1. Presentation and Scope of the Study ................................................................ 23
0.2. Working hypotheses ........................................................................................ 25
0.3. Objectives ....................................................................................................... 28
1. COGNITIVIST THEORIES OF METAPHOR ............................................................... 31
1.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 31
1.2. Experientialism and Conceptual Metaphor Theory .......................................... 34
1.2.1. Metaphorical thought ........................................................................................ 35
1.2.2. Embodiment and the ecological nature of metaphoric thought ........................... 37
1.2.3. Cultural aspects of conceptual metaphor ........................................................... 39
1.2.4. Prototypes and basic-level categories ................................................................ 41
1.2.5. Image metaphors vs. structural-conceptual metaphors ...................................... 42
1.3. Primary Metaphor Theory ............................................................................... 44
1.3.1. Primary metaphors vs. compound metaphors .................................................... 44
1.3.2. Primary metaphors vs. resemblance metaphors ................................................. 46
1.4. Mental Spaces Theory and Blending Theory.................................................... 47
1.4.1. Mental Spaces Theory ....................................................................................... 47
1.4.2. Blending Theory ................................................................................................ 50
1.5. Class-Inclusion Theory .................................................................................... 53
1.6. Career of Metaphor Theory ............................................................................. 55
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