Abstract
The study of the complicated processes taking place in technical texts could change not only the mechanism of a contemporary term formation, but also widen their meanings and extend spheres of their application in both monolingual and multilingual communicative settings. Accordingly, this review study aims at the elaboration of the use and classification of the color-based metaphorical terms in English as well as at the analysis of the tendency for metaphorization of technical texts in English. It further aims at explaining the tendencies in the development of technical texts that have caused changes in the development of technical vocabulary initiating the ongoing process of metaphorization and an extension of meaning of the existing and newly created terms. To this end, the complicated mechanisms underlying the emerging concepts of enduring metaphorization are explained and the processes of meaning formation, extension or compression are illustrated. In the end, as there are potential threats in the pattern of the color-based term creation in technical terms in English and their possible translation into other languages, some relevant caveats are provided.
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