| Abstract |
Term variation or the coexistence of different terms to name the same concept (e.g. contamination and pollution) is frequent in specialized language (Fernández-Silva 2018). Since variants are not always interchangeable, language users such as translators or terminologists need to know when and why a variant should be used in preference to another. Terminographic resources should facilitate this task by including different variants as well as the criteria guiding their selection. However, variants are not usually fully covered and, when they are included, indicators regarding semantics, pragmatics, or usage are not often provided. This paper investigates the representation of term variation in terminographic resources. Our goals were (i) to confirm whether term variants are underrepresented and usage indications are not usually provided, (ii) to collect the data categories and fields employed in the description of term variants, and (iii) to propose a model of representation of term variation in the terminological knowledge base EcoLexicon. Our results showed that, despite the prevalence of term variation, terminographic resources do not usually describe the different possibilities and/or the criteria guiding their selection. In contrast, those which attempt to add pragmatic information do not show this kind of data in a parameterized way. |
| BibTex |
@inproceedings{ELX2020_2021-042,
address = {Alexandroupolis},
title = {Term variation in terminographic resources: a review and a proposal},
isbn = {978-618-85138-1-5},
url = {https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2020-2021/EURALEX2020-2021_Vol1-p405-414.pdf},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Lexicography for {Inclusion}: {Proceedings} of the 19th {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}, 7-9 {September} 2021, {Alexandroupolis}, {Vol}. 1},
publisher = {Democritus University of Thrace},
author = {Cabezas-García, Melania and León-Araúz, Pilar},
editor = {Gavriilidou, Zoe and Mitsiaki, Maria and Fliatouras, Asimakis},
year = {2020},
pages = {405--414},} |
