ABSTRACT
The turn of the century brings into focus the consensus that terminologies reflect the dynamism and complexity involved in the conceptual system structure, as well as the conceptualization particularities associated with language, culture and the socioprofessional groups.The idea that specialized lexical units are linguistic signs and, therefore, component part of the lexicon of a natural language implies the recognition that such items are subject to the same factors that operate in words formation process that permeate everyday speeches (CABRÉ, 1999CABRÉ, M. T. (1999). La Terminologia: representación y comunicación: elementos para una teoría de base comunicativa y otros artículos. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.). This study addresses the terminology of fauna (Zoology - Vertebrates) and flora (Botany - Angiosperms), whose data derive from previous research (MARTINS, 2013MARTINS, S. C. (2013). Dicionário onomasiológico de expressões cromáticas da fauna e flora. 2013. 220 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos Linguísticos)-Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, São José do Rio Preto.; 2017) in which the denomination of approximately two hundred species were examined in Portuguese, in English and in Italian. In fact, in this area of knowledge, parallel to scientific names coexist semi scientific names, adapted to the vernacular language, and vernacular forms, that is, common names that vary according to the languages and that represent the vocabulary richness of each culture (GARRIDO, 2000GARRIDO, C. (2000). Traducción de los nombres vernáculos ingleses de animales en los textos de divulgación científica. In. BEEBY, A.; ENSINGER, D.; PRESAL, M. Investigating Translation. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, p. 251-260.). With regard to the last ones, they are considered here as denominative variants (FREIXA, 2002FREIXA, J. (2002). La variació terminològica: anàlisi de la variació denominativa en textos de diferent grau d’especialització de l’àrea de medi ambient. 2002. 569 f. Tesi Doctoral (Doctorat en Variació en el Llenguatge)- Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona. Disponível em: <http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/1677>. Acesso em: 20 Out. 2015.
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; 2005FREIXA, J. (2005). Variación terminológica: ¿por qué y para qué? Meta: Journal des traducteurs, Montréal, v. 50, n. 4, p. 00-00.). According to the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CABRÉ, 1999CABRÉ, M. T. (1999). La Terminologia: representación y comunicación: elementos para una teoría de base comunicativa y otros artículos. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.), the variation phenomenon is one of the inherent principles of terms analysis. In short, the formation of the terminology in question reveals the different perspectives to which animals and plants may be subjected. This variety of viewpoints result from human inner factors, that is, psycho-cognitive mechanisms, and contribute to the notion of denominative variation with cognitive consequences (CABRÉ, 2003CABRÉ, M. T. (2003). Teorias de la Terminología: de la prescripción a la descripción. In: ADAMO, G.; DELLA VALLE, V. (Ed.). Innovazione lessicale e terminologie specialistiche. Florencia: Leo S. Olschki, p. 168-188. (Serie Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, v. 92).;2008; FERNÁNDEZ-SILVA, 2010FERNÁNDEZ-SILVA, S. (2010). Variación terminológica y cognición: factores cognitivos en la denominación del concepto especializado. 2010. 370 f. Tesi Doctoral. Institut Universitari de Linguística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Disponível em: <http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/22638>. Acesso em: 20 Out. 2015.
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; 2013FERNÁNDEZ-SILVA, S. (2013). Variación denominativa y punto de vista. Debate Terminológico, n. 9, p. 11-37.).
Keywords:
terminology; variation; denominative variation; fauna and flora