The pedagogical approach in Meaning-Text Theory: description of specialized lexical collocation in the Hemodynamics

Abstract

This article is part of the studies about the use of pedagogical approaches to the lexicographic tools for describing specialized vocabulary when considering the lexical learning process. However, unlike proposing lexicographic products that aim to learn a second language, specifically, with a view to linguistic proficiency along the lines of foreign language teaching, in this article, we opted to try to use mechanisms already described in the specialized literature to present a pedagogical approach within the scope of the Meaning-Text Theory (TST). TST is a semantic-based lexicographic theory that uses Explanatory and Combinatory Lexicography (LEC) to generate products that offer a complex and quite complete linguistic description of the functioning of lexical units within a linguistic system, whether considering the description of a common language, be it its various specialty languages, both in the mother tongue and in a second language. Given the complexity of TST, the researches have been dedicated to presenting a more didactic line of linguistic description with a focus on the “popularization” of some TST tools for the description of the lexicon of a language. Accompanying this more pedagogical current of the linguistic descriptions of lexias based on TST, in this work, I analyze an example of specialized lexical collocation (CLE) in the domain of Hemodynamics in order to make the description of the linguistic sense more accessible to the user-learner.