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As a result of the neurocognitive approach to the lexicon that disciplines such as Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics carry out and, consequently, the addition of the mental and brain mechanisms that underlie the encoding and decoding of meanings in the field of Semantics, a series of terms or terminological units arises. They can be grouped into three main axes: the lexical mental and brain representations, the computational and associative processes involved in lexical-semantic comprehension and production, and the acquisition and loss of meanings. The main aims of our paper are 1) to assess the inclusion of these Psycholinguistics contents in Lexical Semantics, 2) to analyze their degree of consolidation and vitality in a set of dictionaries of Linguistics, and 3) to identify possible deficiencies in their terminological treatment and draw up a proposal for their conceptual integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the disciplines that has been studied in recent years under the umbrella of lexical semantics is terminology. This paper investigates the terminology of a specialised language, that of the leather industry, in order to analyse the observable conceptual relationships. The paper first reviews different approaches to the terminological typologization of the conceptual relationships with regard to examples from our corpus. The second part consists of a case study on the term petaquero. Finally, I suggest a typology of the conceptual relations according to the classification suggested by Casas Gómez, adding some relations identified on the basis of the Communicative Theory of Terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose to locate the trace of Raimundo Sanz's Diccionario militar (1749)- the first example in Spanish language of this special lexicographical variety-in the Diccionario militar portátil (1822) of José Fernández Mancheño, composed in the next century, in order to find out how much of its terminology meets inheritances rather than own innovations. Our objective is also to verify the mutual semantic influences, in addition to those concerning lexicographical marks, which are used to restrict the words. Thanks to our contrastive analysis, several conclusions can be drawed. The most important are, first, that innovation in Fernandez Mancheño with respect to its direct predecessor, curiously, is to have recourse to military terminology of the past and, second, that the marks and the definitions are the microstructural elements where the progress reached by Fernández Mancheño compared to Sanz is more obvious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to highlight that both neology and terminology are linguistic disciplines that permit, using both general and specialized words, an analysis of the cultural, scientific, economic, political and ideological evolution of a given society throughout its history. For this purpose, it is crucial to distinguish the speaker's perspective from that of the hearer, especially when tackling the pragmatic and discursive implications of terminological neologisms. Both neology and terminology need to be investigated in an interdisciplinary way as new topics of lexical semantics. The goal is to formally, semantically and functionally describe the lexical units that take new functions and meanings according to the context. These lexical units are thereby subject to variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The meaning of number terms is the object of an ongoing debate in linguistics, pragmatics and the philosophy of language. In this paper I defend a contextualist view where I suggest that rather than being a full fledged concept, the semantics of a number term is a conventional trigger that activates a conceptual area that contains the concepts it can be used to express. The interpretations that a number term can receive are given by an interaction of the logical form of the utterance where it appears, the conceptual area activated by its use, and the search for optimal relevance. This proposal explains some linguistic and empirical evidence that other views cannot account for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Variation in the field of phraseology has been the object of numerous studies of the common language. Since the last decade of the 20th century several investigations stressed the relevance of the phraseological variation in texts for special purposes in many fields, as for instance for specialized translation. In this paper the phraseological variation in legal texts is treated from a topolectal point of view in a corpus consisting of sentences from Hispanic penal law. Firstly, the corpus is analyzed using the model introduced by Tabares Plasencia (2012). Secondly, a sample of variation in the analyzed texts is proposed in order to systematize this variation and to develop a database of PLU (Phraseological Legal Units) for this type of texts, applicable to other text types in the future, which is addressed to Spanish-German translators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]