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Tenets of cognitive linguistics as a framework for terminology research

The frame provided by the ideas of cognitive linguistics has helped reveal a whole wealth of semantic features in the language of science. The study of prototypical meaning, as described by cognitive linguists, can be applied to terminological lexis. Dependence of the given semantic category on background knowledge leads to a model of prototypical meaning specific for the language of science. Metaphorical models abound in the language of science. With their role in structuring the new experience on the basis of the existing one, they play an important part in the development of science, by helping not only to communicate, but also to conceptualize the new knowledge. Multiword lexical units, disregarded from earlier grammatical theories, now find their place within the frame of cognitive grammar, which rejects distinction between grammar and lexicon and describes lexicon, morphology, and syntax as a continuum of symbolic structures.

Cognitive linguistics; Prototypical meaning; Metaphorical models; Multiword lexical units

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