Analysis of conceptual connections intermediated by the terminology

Abstract

Knowledge Organization is connected with the tasks of classifying, indexing and representing a registered and socialized knowledge. It is, therefore, a threedimensional science, seeing that it is occupied with the principles, methods and instruments used for the management of human knowledge from a triple perspective: its representation, its organization and its documental communication. Thus, when approaching the Knowledge Organization subject, there is no chance to dispense the Terminology, as this one permeates the whole process of the other. In this way, the aim is to analyze the use of Terminology for the identification and representation of concepts from the categories (classes) of documentary languages (alphabetical and hierarchic). In order to achieve such goal, a class of a decimal system was chosen and, inside of this class, the organization of concepts through its conceptual connections (subordination and coordination) was verified. As a result, a detailed inquiry about the conceptual connections was made, with prominence to the subordination and coordination connections, having those achieved notoriety in the terminological representation of the analyzed concepts. It can be concluded that the terminological analysis, considering its instrumental character to the Documentary Analysis–when applied to the attribution of distinguished and methodologically delimited concepts to the terms from their own context–is of special relevance to the Specialized Languages, as it identifies the concepts from a determined area of knowledge and, after that, attributes the terms, defining them and controlling its connections.