Author: Freixa, Judit

Source: Terminology, Volume 12, Number 1, 2006 , pp. 51-77(27)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:

This article offers a review of the causes of denominative variation in terminology observed by different authors, based on a classification of the areas that motivate variation and illustrated by examples of the most relevant types of variation in the present context. This analysis offers a typology of the causes and sub-causes of denominative variation in terminology. It is presented in five main sections: dialectal causes, related to different origins of authors; functional causes, related to different communicative registers; discursive causes, related to different stylistic and expressive needs of authors; interlinguistic causes, related to contact between languages; and cognitive causes, related to different conceptualisations and motivations.

Keywords: causes of variation; denominative variation; terminological variation

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.12.1.04fre

Publication date: 2006-01-01

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