METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY AS SPACE (AS EXEMPLIFIED IN SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES ON CLOUD COMPUTING)
The article studies the space metaphor represented in scientific (incl. popular scientific) IT-discourse in the field of cloud computing. The cognitive nature of metaphor is highlighted. The space metaphor is regarded as a key one in modelling of cloud computing and defines particularity of space organization in the given research field. Representation of cloud computing as space is given on the basis of two main metaphors «Technology is space» and «Technology is a container». The article determines the range of meanings conveyed with the help of semantic transformation describing types of spatial relations most commonly used as a basis for metaphors in the text.
Keywords: scientific discourse, metaphorical model, cloud computing, space, metaphor
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Issue: 4, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF COGNITIVE AND DISCURSIVE LINGUISTICS
Pages: 185 — 188
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