Home → Releases → № 1 (57) →

THE PHENOMENON OF SCIENTIFIC METAPHOR: EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY

Theory of Knowledge , UDC: 130.122; 130.2 DOI: 10.24412/2078-9238-2026-157-75-91

Authors

  • Lobanova Yuliya V. PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor

Annotation

In this study, a comprehensive (linguistic, psycholinguistic, socio-psychological, functional-role) analysis of the phenomenology of scientific metaphor in the most frequently recorded manifestations in the space of scientific discourse is carried out. Particular attention is paid to the socio-psychological and functional-role features of the construction in the space of scientific discourse of linguistic means of expression and transmission of meanings related to the results of the scientific research process and going beyond the lexical vocabulary norm. The prerequisites and causes of the process of metaphorization of the space of scientific discourse are studied, related both to the uniqueness of scientific activity as such and to the features of its implementation associated with the processes of thinking and speech, as well as — to a large extent — with the sphere of human emotions, the consequence of which is the presence of a number of genetic and causal correlations between metaphorization and emotional expression. In conclusion, in addition to internal, an analysis of external possible reasons for the emergence of metaphors within a scientific text is also carried out, mainly related to the peculiarities of the functioning of science in society, as well as to the customs and traditions that have developed in modern scientific activity.
Tags:
cognitive-verbal instrumentalization of metaphor , emotions as companions of insight , intertextual re-semantization of scientific concepts , metaphor as the semantic core of irony , metaphorization as abstraction

How to link insert

Lobanova, Y. V. (2026). THE PHENOMENON OF SCIENTIFIC METAPHOR: EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 1 (57), 75. https://doi.org/10.24412/2078-9238-2026-157-75-91
References
1. 1. Imasheva, O. A. (2023). Metaphor and its interpretation in scientific discourse. Russian Linguistic Journal, (6 (42)), 1–8. (In Russian).
2. 2. Bogoyavlenskaya, D. B. (2015). On the nature of insight. In Creativity: science, art, life. Materials of the All-Russian scientific conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Ya. A. Ponomarev, IP RAS, September 24–25, 2015 (рр. 53–56). Institute of Psychology RAS. (In Russian).
3. 3. Menshikov, A. A. (2025). The cognitive potential of metaphor in the system of scientific discourse: PhD dissertation. Far Eastern State Technical University. (In Russian).
4. 4. Morozova, I. S. & Smolyanina, E. A. (2015). Features of metaphorization in a scientific text (based on M. Black’s scientific article “Metaphor” in English). Bulletin of Tomsk State University: Philology, (2 (34)), 33–44. (In Russian).
5. 5. Gadamer, H.-G. (1988). Truth and method: fundamentals of philosophical hermeneutics. Progress. (In Russian).
6. 6. Riker, P. (1990). Metaphorical process as cognition, imagination and sensation (M. M. Buras, & М. А. Krongauz, Trans.). In Arutyunova, N. D. (Introd. art. and comp.); Arutyunova, N. D., & Zhurinskaya M. A. (Ed.) Theory of metaphor. Collection, (рр. 416–434). Progress. (In Russian).
7. 7. Smolyanina, E. A., & Morozova, I. S. (2025). Metaphorical models of personological knowledge in scientific linguistic discourse. Bulletin of Novosibirsk State University. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural communication, 14, (4), 81–97. (In Russian).
8. 8. Lakoff, J., & Johnson, M. (1990). Metaphors that we live by (N. V. Pertsov, Trans.). In Arutyunova, N. D. (Introd. art. and comp.); Arutyunova, N. D., & Zhurinskaya M. A. (Ed.) Theory of metaphor. Collection (рр. 387–416). Progress. (In Russian).
9. 9. Dawkins, R. (2016). The selfish gene (Fomina, Trans.). AST: CORPUS. (In Russian).
10. 10. Gould, S. J., & Lewontin, R. C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 205 (1161), 581–598.
11. 11. Poincare, A. (1983). About science (L. S. Pontryagin, Ed.). Nauka (In Russian).
12. 12. Dirac, P. A. M. (1979). Principles of quantum mechanics (Yu. N. Demkov, & G. F. Drukarev, Trans.; G. A. Fok, Ed.). Nauka. (In Russian).
13. 13. Steen, G. (2002). Towards a procedure for metaphor identification. Language and Literature, 11, (1), 17–33.
14. 14. Shchepalin, M. D. (2025). Emotional component in scientific cognition (based on the texts of E. D. Polivanov and M. V. Panov). Scientific Notes of Petrozavodsk State University, 47, (1), 47–52. (In Russian).
15. 15. Danilevskaya, N. V. (2010). On the issue of expression in a scientific text. Bulletin of the Perm University. Russian and foreign philology, (6 (12)), 30–36. (In Russian).
16. 16. Danilevskaya, N. V. (2018). Expressiveness as a means of conceptualizing new knowledge in a scientific text. In Russian speech culture and text (pp. 184–190). Tomsk Center for Scientific and Technical Information. (In Russian).
17. 17. Ryabtseva, N. K. (2019). “Cognitive emotions”, polymodality of scientific discourse and pragmaesthetic effects. Cognitive language research, (38), 155–162. (In Russian).
18. 18. Saenko, N., Voronkova, O., Volk, V., & Voroshilova, O. (2019). The social responsibility of a scientist: Philosophical aspect of contemporary discussions. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 10, (3), 332–345.
Download file .pdf 394.97 kb