Cognitive metaphor as a deeply Ingrained device of computer and internet language

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: A Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie (German Studies) language: English abstract: Computers and the Internet are gradually becoming an increasingly inherent part of human life worldwide. Generally people appreciate the existence of computers and the Internet as they facilitate not only work but almost every activity of everyday life (education leisure system of communication relationships). According to Lakoff and Johnson - theoreticians of cognitive metaphor authors of a thought-provoking book entitled Metaphors We Live By(1980) which the author of this thesis will frequently refer to - in most of the little things we do every day we simply think and act more or less automatically along certain lines. For this reason the computer and Internet language is learned more or less automatically.