MÉTAPHORES DANS LE LANGAGE D’INTERNET. DOMAINE FRANÇAIS-ROUMAIN

The paper aims to identify and group the usual spatial metaphors, according to semantic criteria, used by French and Romanian speakers to describe navigation on the World Wide Web. The conceptual framework on which our research is based is provided primarily by the work of Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1985) on the metaphors we live by that "help us structure our way of perceiving, thinking and doing", as well as those of Maglio and Matlock (1998), Jamet (2006), i.e. The corpus of our analysis will focus on computer-related texts (academic courses, IT print magazines) and scientific popularization (brochures, articles for the lay population) concerning the use of the Internet.