Resumen In the present article we shall study how one can find a literary work in which the use of poetic language is combined with that of specialised language. Its concerns the autobiographical work of Maria Cegarra Salcedo, poet and chemist, in which two facets are perfectly reflected: her career, linked to science, and her daily living in which her family life and her working life converge: the teaching of chemistry and laboratory work. She makes use of a technical lexis which, once it

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... d beyond the frontier of specialised language, arrives at a common language thus allowing her to créate as many metaphors as needed in order to express her emotions. * Este trabajo se ha realizado merced al proyecto El léxico especializado del español: la minería en Murcia en el siglo XIX, financiado por la Fundación Séneca PB/16/FS/02 y una primera versión se presentó en el XXVI Curso de Lingüistica Textual, Universidad de Murcia, marzo de 2003. 1 R. Lapesa (1981): Introducción a los esludios literarios. Cátedra. Madrid; pág. 29. 2 Ch. Bally (1947): El lenguaje y la vida. Traducción de A. Alonso. Ed. Losada, 5. a ed.; págs. 38-40.