Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

111these reasons, we believe it remains to be developed a systematic methodology foridentifying and discriminating between full and partial equivalents that can be used inthe translation of legal texts. The set of criteria for validating equivalents that could bederived from such methodology could help terminologists and translators choose theequivalents they need.In section 2.2.4 (―Methodologies for establishing equivalence‖) we formulatedthe hypothesis that a methodology based on the description of terms by means ofsemantic frames (Fillmore 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985; Fillmore and Atkins 1992) wouldhelp us identify full and partial equivalents. Full equivalents should be those terms thatwill be grouped together into the same frame and have the same number and nature ofarguments. The following chapter describes the theoretical and methodologicalframework on which the methodology we propose is based as well as the reasons whywe decided to use it.