BIOMORPHIC METAPHOR IN THE ENGLISH VETERINARY TERMINOLOGY
BIOMORPHIC METAPHOR IN THE ENGLISH VETERINARY TERMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article represents the results of metaphorization research and the study of metaphor terms widely represented in the English veterinary medicine terminology. The study of metaphorization as a way of forming English veterinary terms was conducted on the basis of lexicographic data recorded in the English terminological dictionaries for veterinary medicine. The analysis of the dictionary material made it possible to conclude that the most productive way of forming terms in the veterinary vocabulary is the biomorphic metaphor, which nominates scientific concepts due to the analogy between objects of living nature and systems of objects of veterinary science. The important role of the biomorphic metaphor in the formation, structuring and functioning of veterinary medicine terminology in combination with the high productivity of metaphorical models in modern veterinary medicine testifies to the relevance of our research. The biomorphic metaphor is based on similarity with living nature: humans, plants, animals. Biomorphic metaphors include botanical, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic metaphors. An anthropomorphic metaphor, formed on the basis of the transfer of lexemes related to the structure of the human body, its behavior, its inherent qualities, is especially common in the veterinary vocabulary. Along with anthropomorphic metaphors, zoomorphic metaphors are often found, which, by association with various animals, make it possible to nominate anatomical and pathological objects and their characteristics. Botanical metaphors, formed due to the correlation of terms with representatives of the plant world and parts of plants, dominate the anatomical terminology of veterinary medicine, since the basis of metaphorical transfer is the external features of the object: shape, size, position in space.

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