| Terminology is the language crystallization of human scientific knowledge and the foundation of scientific theories.With the emerging of interdiscipline,scholars have widen the scope of terminological study.As one of the fast growing and most influential disciplines,the theories of conceptualization and categorization of cognitive linguistics are closely related to the study of terminology.Therefore researches on cognitive terminology have received extensive attentions.At the same time,the metaphorical study of terms has been an important part of cognitive terminology.The establishment of any subjects will inevitably involve the naming and defining of a series of new concepts,at the same time,the creation of new ideas and founding also need to be presented with words.As an important mode of cognition,metaphor plays a significant role in the naming of terms,construction of semantic meaning and understanding of concepts.The thesis employs a method of qualitative analysis combined with case study to identify,categorize,describe and generalize the feature of metaphors used in nautical terms.Based on material collected,the thesis also makes a classification of types of metaphors in nautical terms.On the basis of previous studies,the paper aims to analyze metaphorical nautical terms with theories related to terminology,rhetoric,and cognitive linguistic as the theoretical base.The paper discusses the types of metaphors in nautical terms and the cognitive mechanism behind it.The paper proceeds to analyse motivation and polysemia of terms.In the end,the paper discusses what roles metaphors play in nautical terms.The paper finds that there are plenty of metaphors in nautical terms,including object metaphor,animal metaphor,body metaphor,personification metaphor and culture metaphor.Metaphorical nautical terms in this thesis mainly derive from daily words.It also finds that metaphors contribute to naming and understanding of terms,which correspond to the language level and the cognition level. |
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