THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL WORK – COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ROMANIAN AND AMERICAN TERMINOLOGY
Keywords:
terminology of social work, excessive synonymy, semantic inconsistenciesAbstract
This study aims to analyze the terminology of
social work with reference to the reality existing in
Romania and to a general extent in the United States. We
highlighted the most important examples of excessive
synonymy, exemplifying eleven such situations that are
created in certain activities in the professional social
work environment. Also, we wanted to identify the
elements of common terminology, but also the different
terms in the social work language of the United States
and Romania. The conclusions of the paper show that on
both the theoretical and the methodological side, in
Romania the social work language is loaded with English
words, excessive inconsistencies and synonymy.
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