Chapter published in:
Multiple Perspectives on Terminological VariationEdited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 18] 2017
► pp. 31–55
Chapter 2Term usage and socioterminological variation
The impact of social and local issues on the movement of terms
Valérie Delavigne | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Terms get around. Try as we may to control them, they do not stay put inside their original sphere of activity. Experts in a given field have a mutual understanding of terms: they share their usage and meaning. However, when technical and scientific terms are used outside the boundaries of their “natural” environment, shared understanding is lost. A work of discursive negotiation and reformulation, well-described in the context of the popularization of science (Jacobi 1986, 1999; Mortureux 1988), becomes necessary to restore mutual comprehension. Reformulation depends on several factors: the terms involved, the context in which they are used, the textual genres in which they circulate, and the medium through which they are conveyed. In our chapter, we adopt a socioterminological stance to show that discursive negotiation takes a variety of forms, but also, significantly, it is not at work with any terms when terms enter new discourse communities.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Terminologies, jargons and discourse genres: On variation and the circulation of terms
- 2.1Socioterminology and variation
- 2.1.1Variations
- 2.2Identifying variation: Which corpus for which form of variation?
- 2.3Context and textual genre, or how variation emerges and can be described
- 2.1Socioterminology and variation
- 3.Terms in movement: When terms permeate popularization
- 3.1Working with contrastive corpora
- 3.2Initial approach
- 3.3Revealing movements
- 3.4The inconsistency of reformulation markers
- 3.5Beyond terms
- 3.6The hidden term: Terminological omission
- 3.7The subtle elegance of popularization
- 4.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
References
Published online: 24 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.18.02del
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.18.02del
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