Russian Economic Terminology Metaphor Research

As a new branch of discipline in last century, terminology stems from linguistics, or rather it derives from lexicology which is a branch of linguistics with lexical unit as object. It therefore follows the perspectives of linguistics and adopts its methodology since it developed into an independent disciplinary subject. Besides, cognitive science was a focus of study at that time, where metaphor served as an approach to study cognition. As early as in 1725, Italian philosopher and rhetorician G. Vico discovered that metaphor had cognitive function. Later, since the publishing of the book Metaphors we live by written by Lakoff & Johnson, the study of metaphor in cognitive linguistics has been touched. Thereby, cognitive terminology came into being a new branch of disciplinary study at the end of 20th century, developing from the overlap of terminology and cognitive science.Metaphor plays an important role to produce a mass of metaphors in terms in the procedure of naming, comprehending and illustrating the meaning of terms.Based on the previous methods of terminology and fruitful theoretical findings of metaphors, the present study, employing Russian economic terms as its corpus, investigates the metaphor in Russian economical terms, explores the generation of terminology with special attention to its definition and the correlation of the polysemy of terms and metaphor and illustrates the two types of metaphors, namely, language-based metaphor and origin-based metaphor. This paper also probes into the possible reasons for the outcomes, along with a discussion of its function.