Metaphor terms and intellectual migration

Interdisciplinarity and intellectual migration are fundamental concepts in academia and research fields. They reflect changes and developments in approach, facilitating the integration of specialized knowledge. Interdisciplinary migration occurs according to: the innovation and creativity of terms, relevance and applicability, necessary transfer of knowledge, cultural and social influences, etc. The dynamism and mobility of metaphor terms allow their infiltration from one field of activity into another. The inter-/ intra, transdisciplinary intellectual migration and the hybridization of concepts generate the decrease in the degree of strict specialization of the specialized metaphors. The predisposition of metaphor terms to form the disciplinary corpus of several fields of activity, concept changes based on meronymy relationships, etc. – are the issues tackled in this article.