DIFFERENT FACETS OF MARITIME TERMINOLOGY – FROM NORM TO USAGE
DIFFERENT FACETS OF MARITIME TERMINOLOGY – FROM NORM TO USAGE

Summary/Abstract: Until the first part of the twentieth century, the theory of terminology was highly descriptive and normative, having the Wüsterian desideratum of monosemy of terms at its core. Despite its shortcomings, the classical theory of terminology has had its benefits. The term-concept correspondence reduces ambiguity, improves specialized communication, facilitates the creation of conceptual hierarchies, and draws the cognitive structure of a specialized field, thus enabling the creation of taxonomies and the compilation of standardized terminologies. From this point on, the way the term was perceived changed significantly, reaching the modern theories of terminology from the '90s, which situated terms in context. Specialized languages were no longer totally dissociated from common language, while polysemy was detected transdisciplinarily, through the conceptual transfer from one discipline to another. With this in mind, the present paper aims at illustrating how these theories of terminology may reflect the many facets of Maritime Terminology.

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