Observaţii asupra vulgarizării ştiinţifice în terminologia IT
Remarks on Scientific Popularization in IT Terminology

Summary/Abstract: Computers, smartphones and the Internet have become an important part of our daily lives. As a consequence, large number of people come into contact with strictly specialized IT terms. The first part of the paper deals with the terms variation and scientific popularization from a sociolinguistic perspective. The second part of the article focuses on describing some of the mechanisms used in scientific popularization texts that, theoretically, can help non-specialists understand the meaning of some frequently used IT terms. The discussed mechanisms are the use of paraphrases, semantic relations such as synonymy, hyponymy, and metaphors.

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