Los términos manifestation (fr) y “manifestación” (es) en artículos de revistas biomédicas: estudio basado en corpus

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse the terms manifestation and manifestación used both in French and Spanish to refer to alterations caused by a health issue. The research was based on a bilingual corpus of articles published in biomedical journals, a macro-genre linked to research and characterised by its high level of specialisation. Certain functionalities of the portal RERCOR (Resources about Rare Diseases) have been used to identify co-occurrences and syntactic patterns of the analysed terms, as well as to determine frequencies of usage. The many rare diseases and the implied specialities confer a great terminological interest to this sub-domain. The results provide data to the study of the terminology applied to the concept of disease in French and Spanish, they are useful in translation and they may be of use to implement semi-automatic terminology extraction software.

Keywords

• biomedical terminology
• biomedical journal articles
• specialised corpus
• translation
• rare diseases.