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Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 18] 2017
► pp. 57–79

Chapter 3
Diastratic variation in language for specific purposes

Observations from the analysis of two corpora

| FTI-TIM, Université de Genève | TIM-FTI, Université de Genève
| CRTT, Université Lyon 2 | CRTT, Université Lyon 2

In this chapter, we examine the possibility of analyzing diastratic variation in the context of specialized discourse. In order to do so, we first show that diastratic variation is still in need of a clear definition when applied to specialized languages. We then present the results obtained from the analysis of two specialized corpora. The first corpus, in the field of nuclear medicine, contains articles written by experts as well as extracts from machine operator forums. The second corpus is based on texts, documents and websites produced for academic staff in the field of higher education. The information drawn from these corpora shows that diastratic variation does indeed occur within a given field of professional activity, and should be better taken into account by terminologists.

Keywords: diastratic variation, corpora, experts, groups of experts
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Issues and objectives
  • 3.Methodological considerations
    • 3.1The fields of study and the “communities” of experts chosen
    • 3.2Corpus
    • 3.3Methodology
  • 4.Corpus exploration and results
    • 4.1The nuclear medicine corpus
      • 4.1.1Apocopes
      • 4.1.2Phraseologisms
      • 4.1.3Different terminologies
    • 4.2The university pedagogy corpus
      • 4.2.1Practitioner-experts: Shared but selected and operationalized terminology
      • 4.2.2Terminology of expert-researchers: A need for reflexivity and a certain indetermination
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 August 2017
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