Janine Pimentel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Janine Pimentel plays a role.

This article addresses the terminology used in the field of social media, a new field introduced by recent technological advances. As social media was first created in an English-speaking context, speakers of other languages have had to develop ways to express the concepts of this field in their… read more
Pimentel, Janine 2017 Chapter 5. Specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs in a comparable corpus of judgments produced in Canada, Portugal and BrazilMultiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation, Drouin, Patrick, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton (eds.), pp. 109–130 | Chapter
The study uses a comparable corpus of judgments produced by judges working in Canada, Portugal and Brazil to investigate the differences between specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs as well as equivalence relations. The description of the verbs is based mainly on the theory of Frame… read more
Pimentel, Janine 2015 Using frame semantics to build a bilingual lexical resource on legal terminologyHandbook of Terminology: Volume 1, Kockaert, Hendrik J. and Frieda Steurs (eds.), pp. 427–450 | Chapter
JuriDiCo was designed to be a free online bilingual (Portuguese-English) lexical resource that describes legal terminology. It is based on “Frame Semantics” (Fillmore 1977, 1982, 1985; Fillmore & Atkins 1992), on the FrameNet Methodology (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010) as well as on the methodology… read more
This paper investigates the methodological bases for assigning terminological equivalents that have been proposed by lexicographers and terminologists. It will be argued that consistent methodologies for assigning equivalents are still lacking. We then describe a methodology based on Frame… read more