31.138, Diss: English; Spanish; Translation: Melania Cabezas-García: ''Los compuestos nominales en Terminología: formación, traducción y representación''

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Subject: 31.138, Diss: English; Spanish; Translation: Melania Cabezas-García: ''Los compuestos nominales en Terminología: formación, traducción y representación''

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:12:52
From: Melania Cabezas-García [melaniacabezas at ugr.es]
Subject: Los compuestos nominales en Terminología: formación, traducción y representación

 
Institution: Universidad de Granada 
Program: Programa de Doctorado en Lenguas, Textos y Contextos 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2019 

Author: Melania Cabezas-García

Dissertation Title: Los compuestos nominales en Terminología: formación,
traducción y representación 

Dissertation URL:  http://lexicon.ugr.es/cabezas

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)


Dissertation Director(s):
Pamela Faber
Pilar León-Araúz

Dissertation Abstract:

This study has focused on English and Spanish complex nominals (CNs)
pertaining to wind power terminology. Such multiword terms are very frequent
in general and specialized discourse, but they are a specific feature of the
latter since knowledge is usually condensed in these structures. Although CNs
have been widely studied, there are various aspects that require further
research. These include the formation of complex structures in specialized
language (e.g. wind power forecast error), their modification by parts of
speech different from the noun (e.g. rotating magnetic field), their presence
in or translation into other languages, and their description in linguistic
resources.

With a view to analyzing CN behavior in the wind power terminology, our
specific objectives were the following: (i) to study CNs and address their
characteristics in specialized discourse; (ii) to analyze CNs semantically;
(iii) to explore CN formation from a semantic perspective; (iv) to investigate
CN translation in English and Spanish; and (v) to design a systematic proposal
for CN representation in the terminological knowledge base EcoLexicon.
Assuming the premises of Frame-Based Terminology (Faber et al. 2005, 2006;
Faber 2012), we compiled an English-Spanish comparable corpus on wind power,
which was used for term extraction, semantic analysis, and the identification
of terminological correspondences.

Our study revealed that the clusters of concepts in CNs can be accessed and
specified by means of semantic categories, roles and relations. These also
allowed us to capture regularities in CN formation, which can be further
examined by a slot-filling mechanism activated by the CN head. This triggers
the so-called microcontext. CN translation was also found to be challenging
because of the different patterns of term formation and the lack of
systematicity regarding the description of CNs in terminographic resources.
Along these lines, corpus techniques and guidelines for the specification of
equivalences (based on an in-depth contrastive analysis) are essential. As for
CN representation, it should encompass the different characteristics of these
multiword terms (i.e. their morphosyntactic and semantic formation, their
structure, their variants and equivalents, their position in the conceptual
system, etc.). This wealth of information, together with a conceptual
organization and different access paths to data, can provide a full account of
specialized CNs and improve user experience. The practical application of this
research is a CN section that has been devised for the phraseological module
of EcoLexicon, a terminological knowledge base on the environment.




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