The Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) applied to the development of a corpus-based specialised dictionary of the ceramics industry

espanolEsta tesis es el resultado de un proyecto destinado a la creacion de un diccionario activo, bilingue (espanol-ingles; ingles-espanol) y especializado de la industria ceramica y azulejera con la Teoria Comunicativa de la Terminologia como su pilar teorico principal. Debido al posicionamiento teorico adoptado, la investigacion aqui presentada ha partido de un estudio de corpus (compilado ad hoc) en el que los terminos han sido analizados in vivo y caracterizados de acuerdo al ? habitat? en el que se hallan en el texto especializado. Asi pues, la aproximacion hecha al estudio de la terminologia industrial ceramica hace pertinente el uso de la etiqueta ? lexicografia especializada? a la hora de referirnos a un trabajo como este en el que se ha tratado de ir mas alla de la practica terminografica para dar lugar a un estudio en el que se prima el contexto, las asociaciones naturales de los terminos (colocaciones) y la naturaleza comunicativa de la terminologia. De este modo, en esta tesis se ha presentado de manera progresiva, ademas de un marco teorico detallado y coherente con el fin ultimo de la investigacion, la metodologia utilizada para la elaboracion del diccionario en curso, ampliamente basada en el uso de programas informaticos tanto para la explotacion del corpus (WordSmith Tools 4.0), como para la creacion de la base de datos terminologica (TermStar XV) y la generacion de entradas finales (GENDIC). Asi pues, esta tesis presenta de manera progresiva los resultados obtenidos en cada etapa del metodo de trabajo y 4,000 entradas finales (en este caso del ingles al espanol) correspondientes a las letras A, B, N, O, U y V del diccionario. EnglishThis PhD dissertation is the result of an ongoing process aimed at the creation of a bilingual corpus-based specialised active dictionary of the ceramic industry, with the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) as its mainstay. According to the grounding principles of the CTT, this research has departed form a corpus-based approach in which terms have been analysed in vivo and characterised from the natural habitat in which they are given in specialised communication/discourse. In this light, it has been put forward how the study of terms – made possible thanks to the activity of compiling and describing them, called terminography – may be complemented by the wider projection of specialised lexicography for the compilation and elaboration of LSP, user-oriented and user-friendly quality products in the form of dictionaries. This specialised lexicographical dimension of the work has necessarily implied the need to renew the concept of speciality language dictionaries applied to the ceramic industry and has given way to the creation of a (prospective) active dictionary in this field with a marked emphasis on context. Accordingly, the importance of pragmatic aspects in a work of this sort, has made it necessary to undertake an in-depth revision and analysis of the socio-economic context for the research in order be able to establish and solve the specific terminological needs that the ceramic industrial discourse community may find. On the basis of this theoretical framework, the method of study followed for the development of the prospective dictionary has comprised 8 broad stages: the stage of work preparation and corpus compilation, the elaboration of the field diagram, the stage of documentary corpus management, term extraction, data processing, revision and normalisation and finally, the edition stage. Two main types of results have been presented: those obtained through work in progress in the different stages of the method and final ones strictly speaking, that is, 4,000 English-Spanish entries in their final format (as they will appear in the prospective dictionary) belonging to the letters A, B, N, O, U and V of a complete dictionary which will include a total of 26,000 entries.