Resumo e abstract: evolução morfológica e semântica

Ferreira, Carla and Simões, Maria da Graça Resumo e abstract: evolução morfológica e semântica. Biblos: Revista da Faculdade de Letras, 2013, vol. 11, pp. 531-550. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

The exponential growth in scientific production, in the mid-twentieth century, and respective periodicals’ publishing, in conjunction with the new technologies’ emergence, from which we highlight the digital media as the most important source of dissemination and access to information, have made the abstract an excellent way to spread brief, extensive and updated information. With this article we intend to better analyze the etymology and the semantic evolution of the terms summary and abstract, over time, in order to understand the dynamics of this instrument of information representation, when viewed in the context of documentation representation. To fulfill this purpose we carried out a comparative study between these two words, with preference being given, for this matter, to etymological dictionaries from different eras. This linguistic analysis, that focused on the study of semantic and etymological evolution of the words considered, allows us to conclude, among other things, that the features observed in linguistic sense are identical to those observed within the words’ meaning and, currently, as in the past, there is a semantic identification between abstract and summary.

Portuguese abstract

O aumento exponencial da produção científica e respetivas revistas, a par- tir de meados do século XX, associado à emergência das novas tecnologias, das quais referimos os suportes digitais como meios privilegiados da difusão e acesso à informação, fazem do resumo um meio de excelência para a divulga- ção, breve, substancial e atualizada, deste tipo de literatura. Pretende-se, com este artigo, dar a conhecer a etimologia e a evolução semântica das palavras ‘resumo’ e ‘abstract’ ao longo dos tempos, de forma a compreender a dinâ- mica deste instrumento de representação e divulgação da informação, quando perspetivado no âmbito documental. Para dar cumprimento a tal propósito realizou-se uma análise comparativa entre estas duas palavras, privilegiando- -se, para o efeito, dicionários etimológicos de diferentes épocas. Esta análise linguística, que se debruçou sobre o estudo da evolução etimológica e semântica das palavras consideradas, permite-nos concluir, entre outros pontos, que as características observadas na aceção linguística dos termos são idênticas às observadas na aceção documental e, que actualmente, tal como em tempos idos, se verifica uma proximidade semântica entre a palavra ‘resumo’ e ‘abs- tract’, apesar de estas resultarem de étimos diferentes.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Summary, abstract, etymology, morphology, semantic, Resumo, abstract, etimologia, morfologia, semântica
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IB. Content analysis (A and I, class.)
Depositing user:	Carla Ferreira
Date deposited:	05 Mar 2015 00:16
Last modified:	05 Mar 2015 00:16
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/24732

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