La terminología especializada y su contexto científico en la cobertura del terremoto de Amatrice (italiano-español)
Specialised Terminology and its Scientifi c Context in the Coverage of the Amatrice Earthquake (Italian-Spanish)

Summary/Abstract: Journalists represent a figure whose job is not only to transmit scientifi c information (thus reconciling the knowledge-unknowledge binomial), but also to serve as a spokesperson for institutions in the event of risk alerts or environmental disasters, as well as to remain in direct contact with a large part of society. Because of this, the selection of sources will depend not only on the general and specifi c knowledge of the reader, but also on the degree of relevance of the actors involved. Initially, this study will go over the most important aspects for the consideration of the journalistic corpus that will serve as the sample for this research, namely the signifi cance of environmental journalism and its coverage, a description of the current profi le of the journalist-translator and its relation to terminology. Subsequently, the fi nal corpus is made up with news extracted from diff erent Italian and Spanish newspapers from the fi rst 48 hours of the Italian earthquake in Amatrice in 2016. Th e results show the scarce linguistic training in the curricula of the Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, the tendency of Spanish newspapers to use more scientifi c terminology and the introduction of new linguistic-discursive mechanisms to deal with specialised terminology, such as comparison, description, exemplifi cation, amplifi cation and causality.

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