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In:Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 18] 2017
► pp. 11–30

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Chapter 1
The emotional dimension in terminological variation

The example of transitivization of the locative complement in fishing

 | CLLE-ERSS (UMR5263), Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès et CNRS
Published online: 24 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.18.01con
You can have no idea of the depths of emotion felt by fishing clubs and anglers generally.(Paul Torday. 2007. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. London: Phoenix, p. 116)
(Paul Torday. 2007. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. London: Phoenix, p. 116)
The emotional dimension is generally considered to be unimportant in terminology. Real usage, however, shows that this may be erroneous. Some specialized domains, such as sport or hobbies, are concerned by emotion, and the way terminology functions may be affected by it. This chapter is based on the study of fishing in which, for French as other languages, it is possible, in some specific situations, to transitivize the locative complement. It presents data obtained from the Internet and describes the role of the nature of the websites. It proposes to take into account the emotional dimension from the perspective of embodied cognition. Finally, it discusses the practical difficulties of identification and representation that may arise when the emotional dimension is taken into account.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Overview of the issue
    • 2.1The limits of textual terminology
    • 2.2Variation and emotion in specialized discourses
  • 3.The study on French
    • 3.1The verb pêcher
    • 3.2Analysis of other elements characterizing the objects
      • 3.2.1The case of pêchable
      • 3.2.2Syntactic tests
      • 3.2.3“Semantic” tests
  • 4.Other languages, other verbs
    • 4.1Other languages
      • 4.1.1Preparation of the studies
        • 4.1.1.1English
        • 4.1.1.2Spanish
        • 4.1.1.3Italian
      • 4.1.2Results
        • 4.1.2.1English
        • 4.1.2.2Spanish
        • 4.1.2.3Italian
    • 4.2Other verbs
  • 5.Cognition, emotion and specialized languages
    • 5.1Cognition, terminology, frames
    • 5.2Embodied cognition
    • 5.3Taking the emotional dimension into account in terminology
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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