西南石油大学学报(社会科学版) ›› 2010, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (8): 19-22.DOI: 10.3863/j.issn.1674-5094.2010.01.0

• 石油与天然气软科学 • 上一篇    下一篇

石油科技英语词汇隐喻性特征研究

江淑娟   

  1. 中国石油大学外语系,北京昌平102249
  • 收稿日期:1900-01-01 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2010-01-20

METAPHORICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY

JIANG Shu-juan   

  1. Department of Foreign Languages,China University of Petroleum,Changping Beijing 102249,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-01-20

摘要:

针对科学语言是否应该使用隐喻词汇这一论题,利用自建小型语料库,随机选出内容均衡、具有代表性的20篇文章,对石油科技英语词汇进行了实证性研究,证明这类科技英语词汇具有明显的隐喻性特征,分析了石油科技隐喻词汇产生的必然性,从认知角度探讨了隐喻性词汇在石油科技英语中的认知功能:类比假设功能、理论构建功能及陈述解释功能。

关键词: 石油科技, 英语术语, 词汇, 隐喻, 语料库, 特征, 认知功能

Abstract:

A case study is made about English vocabulary of petroleum technology to answer the question whether metaphorical vocabulary should be used in scientific language.The study on 20 articles selected from a self-build corpus shows that English vocabulary of petroleum English bears distinct metaphorical characteristics.The author also studies the cognitive functions of metaphorical vocabulary in Petroleum English which are analogical reasoning,theory constructing,and stating.

Key words: petroleum technology, English technical terms, vocabulary, metaphor, corpus, character, cognitive function

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