ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the word variation of 20 terms in the economic section of the Spanish general newspaper El País digital between 2008 and 2010. The theoretical framework is based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (TCT) (CABRÉ CASTELLVÍ, 1999CABRÉ CASTELLVÍ, M. T. (1999). La Terminología: Representación y Comunicación. Barcelona: Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada. Universitat Pompeu Fabra., 2003CABRÉ CASTELLVÍ, M. T. (2003). Theories of terminology. Their description, prescription and explanation. Terminology, v. 9, nº 2, pp. 163-200. & 2005CABRÉ CASTELLVÍ, M. T. (2005). La Terminología, una disciplina en evolución: pasado, presente y algunos elementos de futuro, Debate Terminológico, nº 1.), since the terms are examined in texts where there are cases of word variation, in a communicative situation of issuer-journalist specialized in economy and lay-public. The methodology links descriptive terminology to corpus linguistics, because the terms are studied in the situational and social context in which they move, extracting from a corpus exploited by a program of textual analysis.
Keywords:
Terminological variation; Economic-financial texts; Spanish generalist press