LA TERMINOLOGÍA DESDE EL PUNTO DE VISTA TEXTUAL: SELECCIÓN, TRATAMIENTO Y VARIACIÓN

Abstract

This article aims at contributing to the description and explanation of the relation between the degreeof speciality of texts and the presence and treatment of terminology in them. The objective of the article is todemonstrate that the selection, treatment and variation of terms are conditioned by textual factors (basically,functionality, users and text type). The corpus is composed by different textual types corresponding to texts ofdifferent degrees of speciality - abstract, paper, interview and press news - all of them dealing with the samescientific event. The results of the analysis lead to reliable statements of interest to special texts studies on theone hand, and to terminology and its practice, on the other.