Chapter 7. Terminological variation and the unsaturability of concepts

Freixa, Judit; Fernández-Silva, Sabela

doi:10.1075/tlrp.18.07fre

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“…In the same line, Bowker & Hawkins (2006) affirm that variation cannot be attributed to the carelessness of subject field experts, but rather to their desire for precision and the carefulness invested in their choice of expression. On the one hand, variation sometimes happens with a specific purpose (Bowker 1998;Fernández-Silva et al 2009;Kerremans 2017;Freixa & Fernández-Silva 2017;Gledhill & Pecman 2018), and, on the other, it can also reveal the novelty of concepts (i.e. neologisms) (Cabré 1993;Picton 2011).…”

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“…For instance, Collet (2003) argues that MWTs contribute to text cohesion by molding their shape in different contexts. Freixa & Fernández-Silva (2017), and Fernández-Silva (2018) state that intratextual term variation, especially in the case of MWTs, facilitates cohesion thanks to its repetitive nature. Along these lines, Fernández-Silva (2016) points out that MWT variants that emphasize different perspectives of the same concept contribute to knowledge construction.…”

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Term and translation variation of multiword terms

León-Araúz

García

2021

MonTI

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Phraseology is central to specialized language. In scientific and technical communication, multiword terms (MWTs) (e.g. volatile organic compound) are the most frequent type of phraseological units. Rendering them into another language is not an easy task due to their cognitive complexity, the proliferation of different forms, and their unsystematic representation in terminographic resources. This often results in a broad spectrum of translations for MWTs, leading to higher term variation as a result of their composition by two or more constituents. In this study we carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of English term variants of MWTs from the environmental domain and their translations into Spanish. The focus was on translation variation and its occurrence in different linguistic resources.

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Term and translation variation of multiword terms

León-Araúz

García

2021

MonTI

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“…Term variation occurs "when different denominations are used to refer to the same concept" (León-Araúz 2017: 214). Even though some studies have demonstrated that institutional (EU included) translations of terms tend to be consistent Kerremans 2011, Kerremans 2017), the overwhelming majority argue that complete terminological standardization is very difficult to achieve as definitions and concept systems are never static, and synonymy and polysemy often occur in specialized language (Freixa 2002, Faber 2009, Freixa and Fernández-Silva 2017, León-Araúz 2017, Pimentel 2017, including EU translation (Biel et al 2018, Mori 2018, Prieto Ramos and Morales 2019, Seracini 2020, Biel and Koźbiał 2020. Terminological variation can be attributed to numerous communicative and cognitive factors, such as the situational context of specialized communication, the translator's knowledge of the topic and its terminology, his or her expectations regarding the target text readers' knowledge, the availability of terminological resources, and translation policy (Faber 2009: 113, Fernández-Silva and Kerremans 2011: 332, Freixa and Fernández-Silva 2017).…”

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Translating a pandemic: A corpus study of COVID-19 multi-word terminology in EU press releases

Tomaszewska

Zawadzka-Paluektau

2021

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The study employs a parallel English-Polish corpus to investigate how COVID-19 multi-word terms are handled in translations of EU press releases. Translation techniques are examined at four levels of analysis: (1) term variation, (2) institutionalization, (3) domestication/foreignization, and (4) degree of transfer of information. The results are discussed in regard to the characteristics of COVID-19 terminology and its, often neological, instability, which manifests itself in high levels of terminological variation, inconsistent use of recommended institutional equivalents, and varied degrees of information transfer between SL and TL. The findings are also reviewed in light of the nature of press releases which, as an essential link in the transmission of knowledge from EU institutions to citizens, prompt the use of domesticating techniques.

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“…The multiplicity of senses, however, does not entail a multiplicity of concepts. This interpretation of polysemy differs from complementary notions that have been studied in terminology, such as conceptual variation (Freixa and Fernández-Silva 2017), contextual variation (León-Araúz et al 2013), vagueness (Geeraerts 1993) and microsenses (Cruse 2001). On the other hand, polyreferentiality involves the association of multiple concepts with multiple terms that share the same lexical form (Vezzani et al 2023).…”

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A Novel Approach to Semic Analysis: Extraction of Atoms of Meaning to Study Polysemy and Polyreferentiality

Bonato,

Di Nunzio,

Vezzani

2024

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Semic analysis is a linguistic technique aimed at methodically factorizing the meaning of terms into a collection of minimum non-decomposable atoms of meaning. In this study, we propose a methodology targeted at enhancing the systematicity of semic analysis of medical terminology in order to increase the quality of the creation of the set of atoms of meaning and improve the identification of concepts, as well as enhance specialized domain studies. Our approach is based on: (1) a semi-automatic domain-specific corpus-based extraction of semes, (2) the application of the property of termhood to address the diaphasic and the diastratic variations of language, (3) the automatic lemmatization of semes, and (4) seme weighting to establish the order of semes in the sememe. The paper explores the distinction between denotative and connotative semes, offering insights into polysemy and polyreferentiality in medical terminology.

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Chapter 7. Terminological variation and the unsaturability of concepts

Cited by 42 publications

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Term and translation variation of multiword terms

Term and translation variation of multiword terms

Translating a pandemic: A corpus study of COVID-19 multi-word terminology in EU press releases

A Novel Approach to Semic Analysis: Extraction of Atoms of Meaning to Study Polysemy and Polyreferentiality

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