Caracterul motivat al metaforei terminologice: motivarea metasemică. Funcţia euristică
The Motivated Character of The Terminological Metaphor: Metasemantic Motivation

Summary/Abstract: The “motivated” characteristic attributed by modern linguistics to a small number of linguistic signs is not to be confused with the “motivated” character of the terminological metaphor. It is the hypothesis our study starts from. The motivation of the polilexical metaphor in the special languages is of a metasemantic nature based on changes in meaning and analogy. The relation between the primary signifier and secondary signifier, the study of the surface level and of the deep level, the lexical and semantical cohesion, the transparency of meaning are only a few of the aspects we discuss from a contrastive perspective. In classifying terminological metaphors based on the logical-semantic criterion, the study identifies the following classes: categorial metaphors, polilexical metaphors of identification, terminological metaphors free of domain, etc.The conclusion of our study is that metasemantic motivation represents one of the driving forces of creating present-day terminology.

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