PDF handout of the 32 Powerpoints - Mark Fullmer

6/5/2012It’s important to know that there is “general”,“specialized” and “technical vocabulary”. Thatway, when you are reading something from anunfamiliar content area, you won’t becomefrustrated with strange words.. Also, you canmake better guesses about what the wordsmean.Identify the words you do not know on thefollowing slide, then decide which are technicalvocabulary and which are specializedvocabulary.The use of the phrase "terminus technicus" (Latin"technical term") in linguistics and literature is latentlysemi-ironic, in that rendering the easily understandableEnglish "technical term" in Latin with the more difficult,and to many readers exclusive, Latin equivalent"terminus technicus" itself illustrates how technicaljargon and foreign loanwords narrow the semanticfocus of a term. An example is the Turkish word caïque,a word for a wooden fishing boat, which is found inRussian as kaik (Cyrillic каик) and refers not just to anywooden boat, but the usage of the boat to Russiantravellers when found as a private ferry-taxi on theBosphorus. In other words the idea that the boat isferried by an Ottoman ferryman is part of the exotic"Turkishness" of the word to the Russian 19th Centurytraveller.3