Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

84formalized. The main difference between the two frameworks lies in the fact thatDiCoInfo describes the relations between terms to a greater extent than the theory ofclasses of objects.2.3.3. The Communicative Theory of TerminologyAnother theory that has been applied to the study of specialized verbs is theCommunicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) developed by Cabré (1999). Cabréviews terminological units as multifaceted entities that are ―at one and the same timeunits of knowledge, units of language and units of communication‖ (Cabré 2003: 183).In CTT, lexical units are not taken to be specialized per se but acquire a specializedvalue in certain specialized contexts. The units that convey specialized meaning inspecialized discourse are not necessarily lexical entities and can take the form of words,phrases, clauses and even textual fragments. They can also belong to parts of speechother than nouns. Thus, the CTT attempts to describe the behaviour of all the lexicalcategories that convey specialized meaning regardless of the form they may take.Based on this theory, Lorente (2000, 2002) and Lorente and Bevilacqua (2000)decided to study verbs that occur in specialized texts in order to examine and contributeto three theoretical and methodological issues. Firstly, they are interested inunderstanding why terminological resources seldom include verbs and give preferenceto noun terms. Secondly, they want to identify those verbs that have a specialized valueand to create a typology of verbs occurring in specialized texts. Thirdly, they wish toestablish criteria for the validation of the proposed typology. In all cases, their objectiveis to help terminographers decide what kind of verbs should be included interminological resources.