Open AccessSłownictwo geograficzne
Author(s) -
Dorota Adamiec
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
poradnik językowy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 0551-5343
DOI - 10.33896/porj.2020.5.4
Subject(s) - nomination , lexis , terminology , vocabulary , linguistics , resource (disambiguation) , geography , computer science , political science , philosophy , computer network , law
The beginnings of the Polish geographical terminology are associatedwith the birth of modern science. Its further development is a response to theincreasing communication needs in the fi eld of geography. In the initial phase,the fundamental base of geographical vocabulary is resources of the generallanguage. The progressing specialisation of scientifi c research requires theapplication of an increasing number of precise terms. Geographical terms havebeen coined in accordance with the general rules characteristic of special lexis.The resource includes: foreign quotations, borrowings with various degrees ofassimilation, new Polish words and multi-word units coined with the use ofcommon nomination mechanisms. Geography is a fi eld that is closely related toother sciences, and hence it is characterised by a large number of terms that arecommon to fi elds such as astronomy and geology.