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2006
Terminological vagueness and achieving referential accuracy
VOGEL, RadekBasic information
Original name
Terminological vagueness and achieving referential accuracy
Authors
Edition
1. vydání. Brno, Discourse and Interaction 2. Sborník prací Pedagogické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity. (Edit. R. Povolná a O. Dontcheva-Navrátilová). p. 181-192, 12 pp. 2006
Publisher
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2006
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Type of outcome
Stať ve sborníku
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organization unit
Faculty of Education
ISBN
80-210-4203-6
Keywords in English
Terminology; denotative vagueness; referential accuracy; verbal context; context of general experience; situational context; synonymy; polysemy.
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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.
In English
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.