Full Description
The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.
This reader is built around three themes arranged according to complementary points of view to stimulate thought on the subject of variation as it is approached today. The first theme, "The social dimension of variation", includes three contributions dealing with variation across different categories of speakers. This reflects not only the expert/layperson dichotomy but also other more original polarities as the emotional dimension and the issue of diastratic variation across LSPs. The second part of this reader puts forward different tools and methods to identify, describe and manage term variation. The third theme of this reader questions semantics of term variation through the topics of concept saturation, multidimensionality and metaphor.
Variation, through this picture of current studies, proves to be the touchstone for the understanding of the major issues of terminology research today. The included papers draw on research in terminology carried out in different language communities - Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch in particular - thereby opening up a window on much of the research carried out in these cultural areas.
Contents
1. Introduction: Broadening our horizons: Multiple perspectives on terminological variation (by Humbley, John); 2. Part One. The social dimension of variation; 3. Chapter 1. The emotional dimension in terminological variation: The example of transitivization of the locative complement in fishing (by Condamines, Anne); 4. Chapter 2. Term usage and socioterminological variation: The impact of social and local issues on the movement of terms (by Delavigne, Valerie); 5. Chapter 3. Diastratic variation in language for specific purposes: observations from the analysis of two corpora (by Picton, Aurelie); 6. Part Two. Tools and methods; 7. Chapter 4. Towards a resource of semantically and contextually structured term variants and their translations (by Kerremans, Koen); 8. Chapter 5. Specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs in a comparable corpus of judgments produced in Canada, Portugal and Brazil (by Pimentel, Janine); 9. Chapter 6. Should we be looking for the needle in the haystack or in the straw poll? (by Drouin, Patrick); 10. Part Three. Semantics of variation; 11. Chapter 7. Terminological variation and the unsaturability of concepts (by Freixa, Judit); 12. Chapter 8. Terminological metaphors and the nomadism of specialised terms: Some observations on intralinguistic and interlinguistic variation (by Rossi, Micaela); 13. Chapter 9. Term and concept variation in specialized knowledge dynamics (by Leon-Arauz, Pilar)
