2006
Terminological vagueness and achieving referential accuracy
VOGEL, RadekZákladní údaje
Originální název
Terminological vagueness and achieving referential accuracy
Autoři
Vydání
1. vydání. Brno, Discourse and Interaction 2. Sborník prací Pedagogické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity. (Edit. R. Povolná a O. Dontcheva-Navrátilová). od s. 181-192, 12 s. 2006
Nakladatel
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2006
Další údaje
Typ výsledku
Stať ve sborníku
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organizační jednotka
Pedagogická fakulta
ISBN
80-210-4203-6
Klíčová slova anglicky
Terminology; denotative vagueness; referential accuracy; verbal context; context of general experience; situational context; synonymy; polysemy.
Štítky
Změněno: 9. 2. 2007 19:27, Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D.
V originále
Although systematic terminologies are assumed to consist of unambiguous terms with precisely defined denotation, synonyms as well as semantically broad and polysemous expressions can be found frequently. Even the relatively exact field of activity, finance and accounting, which was used as the source of linguistic material for this research, relies on a terminological system where synonyms and naming units with several meanings are not rare. Despite this drawback, reference in the practical application of financial and accounting terms is achieved quite successfully. The paper analyses the reasons for terminological plurality and vagueness, and looks into the ways in which users of such terminologies make their meaning clear. The concepts of a term and vagueness are revisited in this connection.
Anglicky
Although systematic terminologies are assumed to consist of unambiguous terms with precisely defined denotation, synonyms as well as semantically broad and polysemous expressions can be found frequently. Even the relatively exact field of activity, finance and accounting, which was used as the source of linguistic material for this research, relies on a terminological system where synonyms and naming units with several meanings are not rare. Despite this drawback, reference in the practical application of financial and accounting terms is achieved quite successfully. The paper analyses the reasons for terminological plurality and vagueness, and looks into the ways in which users of such terminologies make their meaning clear. The concepts of a term and vagueness are revisited in this connection.