Abstract
This article proposes a topic that has seldom been investigated by other specialists than biologists, behaviourists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. It is a daring attempt at offering an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective on the types of interactions manifested in the academic environment (between faculty members, between professors and students, between teaching staff and representatives of other university departments etc.). To this purpose, we combine the scientific conceptual framework of inter- and intraspecific relations, human vs. animal behaviour and social behaviour with the conceptual domains, representations and mappings of metaphors which are analysed with cognitive linguistic tools.
Cuvinte cheie
interspecific and intraspecific interactions
scientific metaphor
academic community