CORPUS-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO TERMINOLOGICAL UNIFICATION IN UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE
Keywords:
corpus linguistics, corpus-driven approach, terminological unification, terminological variation, United Nations discourse, institutional discourse, parallel corpus, multilingual terminology, terminological harmonization, semantic equivalence, translation equivalence, institutional terminology, terminology management, specialized corpus.Abstract
Terminological unification is one of the central linguistic problems of multilingual institutional communication. This issue is particularly significant in the discourse of the United Nations, where the same political, legal, social, economic and administrative concepts are repeatedly expressed in different documents and reproduced across several languages. In such a communicative environment, terminology performs more than a nominative function. A term identifies a specific institutional concept, preserves its semantic boundaries and ensures that the same concept is interpreted consistently in different documents. For this reason, variation in institutional terminology may influence not only linguistic form but also the conceptual accuracy of multilingual communication.
