A variação na terminologia da nanociência/nanotecnologia

Abstract

This research presents a state of the question approach to the terminological variation identified by the Nanotechnology and Nanoscience terminological Dictionary project, officialized in 2005. Terminological variation started to receive due attention since TGT (Terminology General Theory) and Socioterminology re-evaluations, which considered UCE (Specialized Knowledge Unit) to be a natural language achievement and, therefore, having all its peculiarities. Theoretical stances influenced by variationist, communicative and cognitive questions appeared since then; among them, TCT, which enables us to say that the diversity manifests itself in the different sub-areas of the researched area (which belongs itself to the field of Material Engineering), due to its complex conceptual structure, as well as its ample practice variations, its diversity of users and the multiple organizations that are responsible for it.