Colisiones terminológicas

• Autores: Carmen Olivares Rivera
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 12, 1991, págs. 149-156
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This paper discusses some issues related to scientific and technical terminology and its status in the humanities (more specifically in English studies). While terminological precision is a hallmark of scientific rigour and enhances the respectability of a discipline, an undue obsession with technical terms may result in verbalism and a pseudo-scientific approach to language and literature which neglects the dynamics of discourse. Accepting a degree of indeterminacy is a necessary condition in many cases; traditional terminology often performs a useful role as a metalanguage for metalanguage.