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Indeterminacy of terms and icons in software localization

  • Klaus-Dirk Schmitz
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Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP
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Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between terminology management practices in the software development and localization process and the empowerment of end-users. It shows that because a positive evaluation of the software use experience is often premised on clear and consistent terminology, indeterminacy phenomena such as non-transparent, “inappropriate” and inconsistent terms and icons lead to various forms of flawed communication (no meaning, wrong meaning, multiple meanings, unintended meaning, unintended association, etc.).

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between terminology management practices in the software development and localization process and the empowerment of end-users. It shows that because a positive evaluation of the software use experience is often premised on clear and consistent terminology, indeterminacy phenomena such as non-transparent, “inappropriate” and inconsistent terms and icons lead to various forms of flawed communication (no meaning, wrong meaning, multiple meanings, unintended meaning, unintended association, etc.).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Introduction – LSP studies xiii
  5. Indeterminacy
  6. Indeterminacy, context, economy and well-formedness in specialist communication 3
  7. Lexical chains in technical translation 15
  8. Eliminating indeterminacy 37
  9. Indeterminacy of terms and icons in software localization 49
  10. Indeterminacy
  11. Epistemological aspects of indeterminacy in postmodernist science 61
  12. No fixed boundaries 73
  13. Commensurability of scientific theories and indeterminacy of terminological concepts 93
  14. Concept formation and indeterminacy in the LSP of Economics 107
  15. Vague legal concepts 119
  16. Präzision versus Vagheit 135
  17. Indeterminacy
  18. Coping with indeterminacy 157
  19. Ontologies and indeterminacy 181
  20. Terminological modelling of processes 199
  21. Heribert Picht
  22. Heribert Picht 217
  23. Contributors 231
  24. Index 235
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.8.07sch

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword xi
  4. Introduction – LSP studies xiii
  5. Indeterminacy
  6. Indeterminacy, context, economy and well-formedness in specialist communication 3
  7. Lexical chains in technical translation 15
  8. Eliminating indeterminacy 37
  9. Indeterminacy of terms and icons in software localization 49
  10. Indeterminacy
  11. Epistemological aspects of indeterminacy in postmodernist science 61
  12. No fixed boundaries 73
  13. Commensurability of scientific theories and indeterminacy of terminological concepts 93
  14. Concept formation and indeterminacy in the LSP of Economics 107
  15. Vague legal concepts 119
  16. Präzision versus Vagheit 135
  17. Indeterminacy
  18. Coping with indeterminacy 157
  19. Ontologies and indeterminacy 181
  20. Terminological modelling of processes 199
  21. Heribert Picht
  22. Heribert Picht 217
  23. Contributors 231
  24. Index 235
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