Synonymy and variation in the domain of digital terrestrial television
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Franco Bertaccini
Abstract
This article presents the results of a bilingual (French-Italian) corpus-based terminological study on the language of digital terrestrial television (DVB_T). The research sets out to describe the main features of this specialized language from a socio-terminological perspective by assessing the role played by English and by investigating synonymy and variation within the domain-specific discourse in the two countries. The analysis revealed that both Italian and French DVT-B terminologies include a large number of English borrowings and are marked by a proliferation of synonyms and variants, probably for lack of standardization in this new developing domain. The existence of equivalences among synonymic forms in the two languages is used, to suggest that a new generation of terminological databases should be developed which allow for cross-linguistic correspondences to be established beyond the main-term level.
Abstract
This article presents the results of a bilingual (French-Italian) corpus-based terminological study on the language of digital terrestrial television (DVB_T). The research sets out to describe the main features of this specialized language from a socio-terminological perspective by assessing the role played by English and by investigating synonymy and variation within the domain-specific discourse in the two countries. The analysis revealed that both Italian and French DVT-B terminologies include a large number of English borrowings and are marked by a proliferation of synonyms and variants, probably for lack of standardization in this new developing domain. The existence of equivalences among synonymic forms in the two languages is used, to suggest that a new generation of terminological databases should be developed which allow for cross-linguistic correspondences to be established beyond the main-term level.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Terminology and smaller language
- Synonymy and variation in the domain of digital terrestrial television 11
- Language (policy), translation and terminology in the European Union 21
- The situation and problems of Hungarian terminology 35
- Translation-oriented terminology work in Hungary 47
- Towards a national terminology infrastructure 61
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Section II. Best practices in terminology management
- Terminology on demand 81
- Frames, contextual information and images in terminology 97
- How much terminological theory do we need for practice? 123
- Ontological support for multilingual domain-specific translation dictionaries 137
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Section III. Possibilities of terminological databases for different applications
- In praise of effective export terminology 149
- Computer aided term bank creation and standardization 163
- Competency-based job descriptions and termontography 181
- Proposals to standardize remote sensing terminology in Spanish 195
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Section IV. Terminology in a medical setting
- The PERTOMed project 213
- Instrumentality in cognitive concept modelling 233
- Biographical notes 255
- Author index 263
- Subject index 267
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Terminology and smaller language
- Synonymy and variation in the domain of digital terrestrial television 11
- Language (policy), translation and terminology in the European Union 21
- The situation and problems of Hungarian terminology 35
- Translation-oriented terminology work in Hungary 47
- Towards a national terminology infrastructure 61
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Section II. Best practices in terminology management
- Terminology on demand 81
- Frames, contextual information and images in terminology 97
- How much terminological theory do we need for practice? 123
- Ontological support for multilingual domain-specific translation dictionaries 137
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Section III. Possibilities of terminological databases for different applications
- In praise of effective export terminology 149
- Computer aided term bank creation and standardization 163
- Competency-based job descriptions and termontography 181
- Proposals to standardize remote sensing terminology in Spanish 195
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Section IV. Terminology in a medical setting
- The PERTOMed project 213
- Instrumentality in cognitive concept modelling 233
- Biographical notes 255
- Author index 263
- Subject index 267
