Terminologia da piscicultura

Abstract

This project consists of the development of a fish farming terminology glossary, branch of the aquaculture, fish cultivation, in the towns of Belém, Peixe-Boi, São Miguel do Guamá and Igarapé-Açu, in the State of Pará. The corpus, which is named PisciTerm, is madeof interviews with the fish farmers, technicians, fishing engineers, professors, researchers, students and workers in the routines of the farms, laboratories, and fish farming stations. This way, the object of the study is the specialized lexicon and the linguistic terminological variants and registers in the field of fish farming. The computer programs Word Smith Tools (version 5.0) and Lexique Pro (version 3.6) have been used to raise, analyze, edit, organize, and distribute the entries. The research is supported by the socioterminology theoretical-methodology procedures established by Gaudin (1993) and Faulstich (1995, 2001, 2010). The aim is to document the technical language and its oral variants in this field of the human knowledge, which is in expansion in the State of Pará, and that has environmental, economical, nutritional and social relevance, becoming an important tool to the professionals of the area as well as the ones interested in the fishing terminology. The glossary is constituted of 359 entries, among which there are 212 terms and 147 variants, limited to three semantic fields: induced reproduction, fattening and trading.