Original scientific paper

Polysemy in a bilingual terminological dictionary

Anuška Štambuk ; Fakultet elektrotehnike, strojarstva i brodogradnje, Split

Abstract

Modalities of polysemous patterns in a bilingual terminological dictionary are analyzed using the dictionary data base of the English-Croatian and Croatian-English Dictionary of Electronics.
Polysemy is usually a result of the use of a lexical unit in different cognitive frames. However, polysemous meanings also occur within the same cognitive category. A special case of polysemy within the same cognitive category is "motivated" polysemy, in which different senses are so closely related as to make a natural category of senses.
In a number of dictionary entries we find patterns of divergent polysemy between the two dictionary sides, as a result of differences in the conceptual organization of the two languages.

Keywords

polysemy; terminological dictionary; motivated polysemy; divergent polysemy

Hrčak ID:

173510

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173510

Publication date:

6.4.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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