Teorie terminologie a kognitivní lingvistika: k pojetí kategorizace, definice a nominace

• Authors: Bozdechova Ivana

Title variants

EN

THEORY OF TERMINOLOGY AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS: ON CATEGORIZATION, DEFINITION AND NOMINATION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to outline, comment upon and illustrate some new subjects (prototypicality, cognitive models, etc.) which cognitive linguistics offers to the traditional theory of terminology and to the semantic analysis of specialized terms. The paper therefore deals with questions such as: What significance does cognitive information (reflecting a naive, non-specialized view of the world) have for terms? How can such information be used in the study of categorization and conceptualization of the contents of terms? By making use of findings from both traditional lexicology and semantics and from the cognitive sciences, and by using medical terminology as its material, the paper presents the processes of direct and indirect nomination as they relate to terminologization and determinologization. A selection of terms and names relating to the human body, its parts and organs and to human health or diseases is used to confront the scientific and cognitive approaches. The theoretical starting point, concerning the task of corporeality in human cognition, is applied in the analysis of the different kinds of reflection of cognition in medical terminology. The processes of categorization and nominalization of objective reality are also considered as they are reflected in the onomasiological structures of terms.

Keywords

EN

CATEGORIZATION; COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; CONCEPTUALIZATION; DIRECT/INDIRECT NOMINATION; ONOMASIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; TERMINOLOGIZATION/ DETERMINOLOGIZATION; TERMINOLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 163-175
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bozdechova Ivana

• Ivana Bozdechova, Ustav ceskeho jazyka a teorie komunikace FF UK, nam. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA095019