Namaeh Farhangistan

Namaeh Farhangistan

Terminological Motivation in Scientific Terms: A Case Study of Approved Terms in Physics

Document Type : Original Article

10.22034/nf.2022.148003
Abstract
The present article explores two aspects of terminological motivation; namely, ‘intralinguistic motivation’, defined as the relationship between a technical concept and the term denoting it, and ‘interlinguistic motivation’, defined as the relationship between that same term in a language like Persian and its equivalent in English. Intraliguistic motivation comprises phonetic, morphological and semantic (including metaphor and metonymy) subtypes while interlinguistic motivation involves semasiological and onomasiological approach to terminology and term formation. The data collected indicate that technical terms in both English and Persian are of different motivated, semi-motivated, and unmotivated levels. It is further found that while the syntactic type of morphological motivation is predominant in intralinguistic motivation, loan-translation predominates the interlinguistic one.

Keywords
Keywords: terminology
motivation
intrarlinguistic motivation
inter linguistic motivation
terminology of Physics
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  • Receive Date 12 April 2022