THEORY OF METAPHOR AND VISUAL-EXPRESSIVE MEANS AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE LANGUAGE

Аннотация

ion of an object of a special sphere in the form of a lexical unit of a natural language" [Leychik, 2009,p.22]. Among the sources that "feed" the terminological arsenals of special fields of science and technology, we can name, first of all, the vocabulary of the commonly used style. It is the neutral vocabulary that is the resource base for generating terms by means of metaphorical transfer of names based on visual or functional similarity with the "signified" of the lexical unit-source. In thiscase, it is logical to saythat such terms inthestylistic aspect are metaphors and, accordingly, to define them by the phrase "terms-metaphors" or "terminological metaphors" [Borisova, 1997; Novodranova, 2005;Volgina, 2013;Buyanova,2016]. Words of ordinary language, such as apron, dome, knee, acquired the status of terms after they "migrated" to the technical sphere and received constant use in the latter to refer to specific concepts: apron (lathe), dome (blast furnace), elbow (pipeline). These examples demonstrate the fact that there are many lexemes in the language, used both in the common sense and as terms. This state of affairs has prompted linguists to talk about terminologization, as a phenomenon of thetransitionof alexical unit from the commonlyused status tothestatus of aterm.