Synonymy of medical terms: limitation or necessity?
Апстракт
Although synonymy is considered to be the fundamental semantic relation, paradoxically it has not yet been fully examined. Its presence in the LSP has been disputed for a long time because it was believed to be incompatible with the concept of accuracy in scientific communication. Later studies have shown that terms and words are formally and semantically identical and that they only differ at the pragmatic level due to the fact that terms designate concepts used in specific contexts. Terms thus prove their polysemic and synonymic capacity. The first part of this paper offers a review of different definitions and typologies of synonyms in the context of lexical semantics and The Communicative Theory of Terminology. The second part of this paper presents a research based on the corpus study of 400 medical terms. Its aim is : (a) to describe the causes of terminological synonymy, (b) to determine language mechanisms involved in the formation of synonyms, and (c) to specify their morpholo...gical structures. The results obtained confirm the hypothesis that French for Medical Purposes abounds in synonyms of various morphological structures, the presence of which is a result of several linguistic and extralinguistic factors.
Кључне речи:
word formation processes / terminological synonymy / morphological structure / French for Medical Purposes / causes of synonymyИзвор:
Nasleđe, 2018, 14, 40, 289-303Издавач:
- Univerzitet u Kragujevcu - Filološko-umetnički fakultet, Kragujevac
Институција/група
Strani jezici / Foreign languagesTY - JOUR AU - Mirić, Milica PY - 2018 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2557 AB - Although synonymy is considered to be the fundamental semantic relation, paradoxically it has not yet been fully examined. Its presence in the LSP has been disputed for a long time because it was believed to be incompatible with the concept of accuracy in scientific communication. Later studies have shown that terms and words are formally and semantically identical and that they only differ at the pragmatic level due to the fact that terms designate concepts used in specific contexts. Terms thus prove their polysemic and synonymic capacity. The first part of this paper offers a review of different definitions and typologies of synonyms in the context of lexical semantics and The Communicative Theory of Terminology. The second part of this paper presents a research based on the corpus study of 400 medical terms. Its aim is : (a) to describe the causes of terminological synonymy, (b) to determine language mechanisms involved in the formation of synonyms, and (c) to specify their morphological structures. The results obtained confirm the hypothesis that French for Medical Purposes abounds in synonyms of various morphological structures, the presence of which is a result of several linguistic and extralinguistic factors. PB - Univerzitet u Kragujevcu - Filološko-umetnički fakultet, Kragujevac T2 - Nasleđe T1 - Synonymy of medical terms: limitation or necessity? EP - 303 IS - 40 SP - 289 VL - 14 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_2557 ER -
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Mirić, M.. (2018). Synonymy of medical terms: limitation or necessity?. in Nasleđe Univerzitet u Kragujevcu - Filološko-umetnički fakultet, Kragujevac., 14(40), 289-303. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_2557
Mirić M. Synonymy of medical terms: limitation or necessity?. in Nasleđe. 2018;14(40):289-303. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_2557 .
Mirić, Milica, "Synonymy of medical terms: limitation or necessity?" in Nasleđe, 14, no. 40 (2018):289-303, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_2557 .