CORPUS-BASED MODELLING OF TERMINOLOGICAL HARMONIZATION IN MULTILINGUAL UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE
Keywords:
corpus linguistics, parallel corpus, terminological harmonization, institutional discourse, United Nations documents, terminology management, translation equivalence, multilingualism, terminological variation, specialized corpus.Abstract
In this article you will know the increasing complexity of multilingual institutional communication has intensified the need for systematic approaches to terminological harmonization, particularly within international organizations such as the United Nations (UN). The production, translation and dissemination of institutional documents across multiple languages require not only lexical equivalence but also conceptual accuracy, terminological consistency and pragmatic correspondence. This study proposes a corpus-based model for investigating and systematizing terminological harmonization in multilingual United Nations institutional discourse. The research integrates the methodological principles of corpus linguistics, terminology studies, institutional translation and contrastive linguistics. Particular attention is paid to terminological equivalence, variation, conceptual correspondence, frequency, collocational behaviour and contextual stability across parallel documents.
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