Predarea limbajelor de specialitate la anul pregătitor de limba română
Teaching Special Purpose Language to Students of Romanian in the Preparatory Year

Author(s): Ileana-Silvia Ciornei
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: terminology; field of knowledge; lexis; specialized language;
Summary/Abstract: Most specialists in the field define specialized language as communication within a certain professional activity or within a field of specialized knowledge. Maria Teresa Cabré defines specialized languages as subsets of the common language characterized pragmatically by three variants: the subject, users and communication situations (1998: 125); they are characterized by conciseness, precision, depersonalization, objectivity, frequency of illustrations, specific vocabulary.Cowan (1974) and Nation (2001) identify the following categories of lexicon used in specialized languages: highly technical terms that rarely occur outside the field, sub-technical words - context-independent words that occur frequently, and in other fields but with specific meaning in a certain field, meaning understood outside the field, semi-technical words with one or more meanings in the general vocabulary and which, in specialized contexts, have different meanings and non-technical words.

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