<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The assertion our research starts from is that medical terms coined from Greek and Latin scientific elements denote notions, offer information on the level of specialized communication, updating without any exceptions at least two associated preconceptual patterns. From a cognitive perspective, the group of terms has developed based on logical relations of interaction, the starting point of which can be always identified in the cultural and anthropological elements in the environmental, cosmic, etc. dimension of human existence. The arborescent coherence on the level of the terminological corpus, the associated preconceptual patterns and the metaphor through polilexical interaction, the cognitive and informative function of the metaphor on the level of the domain/subdomain and on the level of titling are only some of the objectives this research aims to achieve. I mostly apply the descriptive linguistic method as well as the cognitive, analytical, and comparative methods.</p><p>Conclusions: the scientific compounds have been coined based on an “associated preconceptual pattern”. Through their special linguistic and semasiological behaviour, the scientific compounds have become a source of neonymy in the Pan-Latin lexicon.</p></abstract>

The assertion our research starts from is that medical terms coined from Greek and Latin scientific elements denote notions, offer information on the level of specialized communication, updating without any exceptions at least two associated preconceptual patterns. From a cognitive perspective, the group of terms has developed based on logical relations of interaction, the starting point of which can be always identified in the cultural and anthropological elements in the environmental, cosmic, etc. dimension of human existence. The arborescent coherence on the level of the terminological corpus, the associated preconceptual patterns and the metaphor through polilexical interaction, the cognitive and informative function of the metaphor on the level of the domain/subdomain and on the level of titling are only some of the objectives this research aims to achieve. I mostly apply the descriptive linguistic method as well as the cognitive, analytical, and comparative methods.Conclusions: the scientific compounds have been coined based on an “associated preconceptual pattern”. Through their special linguistic and semasiological behaviour, the scientific compounds have become a source of neonymy in the Pan-Latin lexicon.

Expansion Patterns of the Terminological Metaphor

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences, Târgu-Mureş Department of Applied Linguistics,

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The assertion our research starts from is that medical terms coined from Greek and Latin scientific elements denote notions, offer information on the level of...

Expansion Patterns of the Terminological Metaphor

Published Online: Feb 09, 2017

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0031

Keywords
terminology, scientific compounds, coherence, titling

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Expansion Patterns of the Terminological Metaphor

Published Online: Feb 09, 2017

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0031

Keywordsterminology, scientific compounds, coherence, titling

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
terminology, scientific compounds, coherence, titling