Hiponimia în terminologia nutriţională
Hyponymy in nutritional terminology

Summary/Abstract: Hyponymy is a lexical-semantic relation very common in specialized vocabulary. It refers to the lexical hierarchical ordering of concepts, in the genus-species type. Generally, all specialized terminology define and list concepts according to the hierarchical systems in which they are included. We analyzed the nutritional terminology of two Romanian nutrition guidelines, and we identified monolexical hyponyms as well as syntagmatic hyponymic constructions which contribute to the precise definition of nutrients, certain nutrition-related diseases and dysfunctions. We analyzed hyponymic hierarchies to highlight the rhetorical function of hypomymic units extracted from definitions, descriptions, enumerations and examples, considered resources which reflect the reality of nutritional discourse.

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