От «контейнеров для знаний» к «эпистемической амальгамации»: концептуальная метафора в дискурсе междисциплинарности

Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты. 2026. № 2(66) . С. 9–36.

Nagornaya A., Bakulev A.

The paper looks into the role of conceptual metaphor in understanding the principles of interdisciplinary cooperation and promoting interdisciplinarity as a mode of scientific cognition. It identifies the ideational, explanatory, illustrative, prescriptive and affective functions of metaphor in the interdisciplinarity discourse. On the basis of papers and monographs on the methodology of science, published between 1961 and 2025, it reveals domineering metaphors that are relevant to conceptualizing discipline and interdisciplinarity, analyses their structure and considers the peculiarities of the conceptual perspective they set. The paper traces the evolution of metaphors in the interdisciplinarity discourse and reveals the trend toward the emergence of more fluid metaphors with the semantics of confluence and amalgamation, which testifies to the strengthening of integrative tendencies in science and movement toward transdisciplinarity. The paper shows that metaphors both reflect these trends and contribute to their further development.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity, дисциплина, междисциплинарность, концептуальная метафора, methodology of science, методология науки, transdisciplinarity, трансдисциплинарность, multidisciplinarity, мультидисциплинарность, conceptual metaphor, discipline