Resumen de Aproximación al lenguaje de la Farmacia
The purpose of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to examine the main features defining the vocabulary of Pharmacy and, on the other, to present a model for the construction of a dictionary of the Sciences of Pharmacy. For the examination of the characteristics of the vocabulary of Pharmacy the following features have been taken into consideration: the popular and the aristocratic elements of this vocabulary, doublets, anglicisms, metaphors, paronyms, etc. The interest of linguists in this kind of technical language, interdisciplinarity, is justified in the introduction of the article. In addition, the recent effects of «The Plain English Campaign» in the language of Pharmacy is also analyzed. Before constructing the microstructure and the macrostructure of the dictionary, the article offers a lexicological analysis of the polysemies, monosemies, paronyms, etc. of this language.
