SEMANTIC WAYS TO CREATE TERMS IN THE FIELD OF BOTANY
SEMANTIC WAYS TO CREATE TERMS IN THE FIELD OF BOTANY

Summary/Abstract: The general objective of this study is to illustrate a productive mechanism for term formation in the field of botany—namely, the terminologisation. The terminologisation is a semantic process that involves the extension of meaning through the modification and addition of new conceptual features to words originating from the general lexicon. The methodological approach consists in comparing the primary meanings of the wordswith their second-degree specialized meanings in order to emphasise the denotative values of the terms. Thus, the word becomes semantically enriched, acquires the status of a specialized term within a technical terminology, and comes to designate a concept. Within scientific discourse, it acquires the status of a term, whereas in the common language it becomes a polysemantic word. The conclusion that can be derived is that the role of terminologisation is to address the deficit of terms by avoiding the use of some hermetic, scholarly terms that are difficult to understand and use.

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