Sabela Fernández-Silva- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
Sabela Fernández-Silva
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
Currently doing a postdoctoral research stay at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, with the ArText team
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Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts. The plain language movement provides guidelines for simplifying legal‐administrat...
This article examines the role played by mapuzugun in the first Chilean constituent process. Specifically, it describes how mapuzugun expanded to new contexts of use in three stages of this process-the social outbreak, the Constitutional Convention, and the drafting of the new Constitutional proposal-and assesses this phenomenon regarding the norma...
Dado el amplio uso de los diccionarios en la investigación en lexicología mapuche, el presente estudio se propone indagar en la representación del léxico del mapuzugun a través de los diccionarios mediante su comparación con el léxico en uso, empleado en textos escritos en una época similar a la de la elaboración de las obras lexicográficas. Para e...
The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important topics which have significantly influenced Terminology and its evolution. These include variation, multidimensionality, conceptua...
La gestión terminológica es uno de los mayores desafíos de la traducción especializada, pues los términos condensan el conocimiento especializado y aseguran la concisión y la precisión del discurso. Por tanto, es fundamental que los traductores desarrollen la competencia terminológica para resolver problemas terminológicos en la traducción y elabo...
La metáfora conceptual es utilizada con frecuencia como estrategia divulgativa para acercar el conocimiento especializado a un público lego, pero su eficacia comunicativa para la transmisión de contenido especializado no se ha comprobado empíricamente. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar la incidencia de las metáforas en la comprensión de texto...
This study intended to identify which referent features are more frequently selected in the naming of the concept class of places and, in turn, determine which are the preferred conceptualizations in Mapudungun. This language is mainly spoken by Mapuche people in central and southern areas of Chile and in the Central-West area of Argentina. To iden...
Neste trabalho, embasados nos pressupostos teóricos das teorias cognitivas da Terminologia, tivemos por objetivo analisar a incidência da variação denominativa para a compreensão do conceito especializado no âmbito da Lexicografia. Para isso realizamos um estudo experimental com estudantes de Letras de uma universidade brasileira. Aplicamos uma pro...
La traducción de textos especializados requiere de competencias específicas que apuntan, fundamentalmente, a adquirir conocimiento sobre la materia, sobre la terminología y sobre los géneros textuales y las convenciones estilísticas de los textos fuente y meta. En este proceso, la documentación especializada es fundamental pues permite compensar la...
Term variation is frequently a translation problem that manifests itself at the intra-language level -given the existence of different term variants for the same concept and at the inter-language level- as a result of different translation equivalents for a term. This article presents a proposal for the development of term variation competence in s...
Los avances tecnológicos y las transformaciones sociales provocan la aparición de nuevas unidades léxicas tanto especializadas como de lengua general, las que se difunden principalmente a través de la prensa. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en investigar cómo las áreas de especialidad contribuyen a enriquecer el léxico en español. Para ello, s...
The main objective of this research is to analyze –from a diachronic perspective– the productivity of the processes of noun formation in Mapudungun, based on the hypothesis that the processes observed in periods of less contact with Spanish will exhibit greater linguistic genuineness than those found in periods where contact is more intense. For th...
En este artículo exploramos la función cognitiva de la variación terminológica y, específicamente, su papel en la construcción y transmisión del conocimiento especializado en los textos. Para ello, analizamos la variación denominativa explícita – identificada mediante marcadores discursivos de equivalencia – en un corpus de 300 textos sobre lexicog...
This article presents a study about the terminology used to refer to the Chilean military coup and dictatorship in high school History textbooks. Terms represent specialised concepts in a specific subject field and reflect the conceptualisation of reality of a given disciplinary community in a socio-temporal context. Term choice influences how read...
This article reports a study about the behavior and functions of term variation in research articles (RAs) in Geology and Psychology. The aim of the study was twofold: first, to investigate the role of intra-textual term variation as a device for the representation and transfer of specialized knowledge; second, to explore whether there are discipli...
From a specialized communication perspective, contemporary theories of Terminology conceive variation as an inherent feature of the term. For such reason, it is plausible of analysis, taking into consideration cognitive and contextual factors such as chronological evolution, level of specialization, viewpoints, among others. Nevertheless, variation...
This article presents a study on the influence of concept class in term variation. The hypothesis is that concept class plays a role in the behavior of term variation in a given subject field; and that there are conceptual dimensions that are more salient and appear more frequently in the names of a given concept class. To this end, the variation p...
This study explored the behaviour and functions of term variation in research articles in order to better understand the process of knowledge construction within texts. A semantic analysis of term variation in 19 Spanish-language psychology research articles was carried out. Variants were classified according to the semantic distance from the base...
Se presenta una investigación lexicográfica sobre la variación terminológica y su representación en un diccionario especializado monolingüe destinado a estudiantes universitarios. La investigación está basada en un estudio descriptivo sobre la variación terminológica en un corpus de artículos científicos de psicología y en la aplicación de un test...
In this article, a lexicographical research on terminological variation and its representation in a monolingual specialized dictionary for university students is presented. This proposal draws on a descriptive study of term variation in a corpus of research articles and a test evaluating the level of knowledge of terminological variation in Psychol...
En este artículo presentamos un estudio piloto en que se explora la relación entre la conceptualización del espacio y el desarrollo cognitivo. Para ello se pidió a ocho sujetos de cuatro rangos etarios (niños, adolescentes, adultos medios y mayores) describir la ubicación espacial de los elementos de una fotografía, a fin de identificar los aspecto...
In this article we report a pilot study which explored the relationship between spatial categorization and cognitive development. Eight participants from four age ranges (infants, teenagers, middle aged adults, old adults) were asked to describe the location of certain elements in a picture, in order to examine which aspects of the spatial location...
The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how understanding comes about and how knowledge is the result of a...
The division of Science into disciplinary fields was traditionally explained by the fact that each discipline observes a segment of reality from a particular perspective. Therefore, each discipline had its own conceptual system and terminology. But Science has also progressed through interdisciplinary work teams, and great scientific advances have...
Today, term variation is commonly accepted to be a widespread phenomenon in specialised communication. Although some degree of arbitrariness is inevitable, the expert's choice of a term variant is generally motivated to some extent. This article presents a methodology for describing the conceptually motivated patterns of term variation in a real co...
In this article, it is assumed that the choice of terminological variants in specialized source texts is sometimes cognitively motivated and that this motivation is reflected in the choice of equivalents in the target texts. On the basis of a pilot study, we will present a method for comparing the cognitively motivated terminological variants in so...
Terms are par excellence the most prototypical units of the representation of concepts, through which special knowledge is commonly represented, transferred and understood. Although terms are linguistic signs, which have been said to be arbitrary as far as the relationship between form and meaning is concerned, their relationship with the concept c...
In this article, we explore the important role that motivation plays in term naming and we suggest that synonymy in specialized texts can be explained as a result of a multiple motivation that takes place during the naming process. Firstly, a short review on the topic of concept formation, naming and the concept-term relationship from different the...
In this article, we explore the important role that motivation plays in term naming and we suggest that synonymy in specialized texts can be explained as a result of a multiple motivation that takes place during the naming process. Firstly, a short review on the topic of concept formation, naming and the concept-term relationship from different the...
Neste artigo presentamos unha revisión teórica sobre o concepto especializado e a relación que mantén coa variación. Nós defendemos que existe un grao de motivación importante na denominación terminolóxica e que, a través dela, se fan visibles uns trazos semánticos determinados, achegándonos así unha visión particular do concepto. Por último facemo...
