The ‘Carbon Capture’ Metaphor: An English-Arabic Terminological Case Study
Department of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, 18002 Granada, Spain
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Languages 2019, 4(4), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040077
Received: 4 May 2019 / Revised: 17 September 2019 / Accepted: 23 September 2019 / Published: 26 September 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Formal and Methodological Approaches to Applied Linguistics)
The study of metaphorization processes in scientific texts is essential in terminological studies and the conceptual representation of specialized knowledge. It is considered to be a prolific tool in the creation of neologisms. Many cognitive models tried to study metaphorisation processes by drawing on metaphor and metonymy based on linguistic evidence. However, recent studies have highlighted the necessity of carrying out empirical tests in order to provide refined results that go beyond the traditional theories of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. This paper analyzes the underlying metaphor in the ‘carbon capture and sequestration’ event in both English and Arabic. It also discusses the influence of English, the lingua franca, in the transfer of the neologism ‘carbon capture and sequestration’, via translation processes, and its role in the so-called domain loss in the target language. Results were obtained through a corpus-based contrastive terminological analysis, extracted from specialized texts in English and Arabic in the subdomain of climate change. Data analysis was approached from the perspective of Frame-Based Terminology and Conceptual Complexes.
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Haddad Haddad, A.; Montero-Martínez, S. The ‘Carbon Capture’ Metaphor: An English-Arabic Terminological Case Study. Languages 2019, 4, 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040077
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Haddad Haddad A, Montero-Martínez S. The ‘Carbon Capture’ Metaphor: An English-Arabic Terminological Case Study. Languages. 2019; 4(4):77. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040077
Chicago/Turabian StyleHaddad Haddad, Amal; Montero-Martínez, Silvia. 2019. "The ‘Carbon Capture’ Metaphor: An English-Arabic Terminological Case Study" Languages 4, no. 4: 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040077
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