La neologia de l’habitatge en llengua catalana: sostenibilitat i digitalització del sector

Moyà Cartañà, Júlia

La neologia de l’habitatge en llengua catalana: sostenibilitat i digitalització del sector

Citation

Moyà Cartañà, J. La neologia de l’habitatge en llengua catalana: sostenibilitat i digitalització del sector. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53817

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Abstract

In Catalan, there is a denominative vacuum in the terminology of housing. This has been accentuated by the two great challenges of today's world: the irruption of technologies and the need to seek more sustainable ways of living. The lack of linguistic standardisation and the variation and proliferation of terms for the same concept may cause confusion among real estate professionals and they often resort to borrowing words from English. To ensure the availability of Catalan terminology for housing, the use of terms in this field has been observed in specialised documents and in the media, in matters of sustainability and digitalisation, and a glossary has been elaborated. The terms of linguistic interest were then selected and analysed in order to establish a denomination. And, when necessary, plausible and functional neological proposals have been established. With the research data, we found that the terminology of sustainability is more fixed and has a tendency to be incorporated into Catalan using its own resources for creating neologisms, while real estate technologies are generally based on borrowing mechanisms. When establishing the neological proposals, these trends have been followed.