A STUDY ON THE TERMINOLOGY OF CHILDREN’S AND JUVENILE LITERATURE: a possibility of vocabulary control

Abstract

This is a study on the terminology of Children´s and Juvenile Literature; the textual corpus consists of books from the Centro Referencial de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil (CERLIJ) at FABICO/UFRGS. The need for vocabulary control to index the holdings at this Center motivated this study, whose theoretical basis is the Communicative Theory of Terminology. The methodological approach used was, from term collection to the setting up of a term glossary and their representation in a conceptual map. The diagram of the conceptual map facilitates the viewing of the categories and the relationship between descriptors in the structure of the thesaurus generated and the ones which are being tested.