Abstract
This article aims to investigate the status of folk botanical nomenclature from the perspective of the lexematic theory, a theory developed by Eugeniu Coseriu. The linguist believes that terminologies (folk and scientific) represent objective and conventional classifications that fall under the order of reality. They are a part of the non-structured lexis and not a part of the structured one. The features that situate this nomenclature in the non-structured lexis and ones that situate it in the structured lexis are established on the basis of the material made available by various sources (dictionaries, encyclopædias, different works containing plant names form our country). After the consultation of the sources, the conclusion is that folk plant names are situated at the border line between common language and scientific terminology.
Highlights
The linguist believes that terminologies represent objective and conventional classifications that fall under the order of reality
The author asserts that terminologies are “simples ‹nomenclaturas› enumerativas que corresponden a delimitaciones en los objetos” (Coseriu, 1986, p. 96)
The fourth element concerning the opposition between terminological lexis and common lexis refers to the type of terminological delimitations
Summary
Principios de semántica estructural and Palabras, cosas y términos (see Florescu, 2011). Distinctions used at the structural analysis of the lexis These distinctions are: words and things, primary language and metalanguage, synchrony and diachrony, the technique of discourse and repeated discourse, historical language and functional language, system and norm, designation and signification. The fourth element concerning the opposition between terminological lexis and common lexis refers to the type of terminological delimitations They are precise and closely related to the designated extra-linguistic element (meaning corporeal or abstract/imaginary objects). The conclusion is obvious: terminologies (scientific and technological terminologies and folk terminologies as: the agricultural terminology, the horse and plow nomenclatures, the botanical classifications) are objective, conventional classifications, included in the order of reality They imply an organization (scientific or empirical) based on extra-linguistic criteria, on the knowledge of things. The delimitations are made in the structure of things and not in the linguistic material
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