Toponymic taxonomies and relations with Terminology

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the toponymic taxonomies of Dick (1992) as terminological units of a field of knowledge, from linguistic (formal and semantic structure) and functional points of view, both under a descriptive perspective, focusing on the following antropocultural taxes: axiotoponymies and hierotopoymies, as a way to recover the motivation essence of each of them and, therefore, present some reflections and a proposal for a new tax that can comprehend the motivation of some toponyms that sometimes are not classified clearly or objectively. We consider taxonomies as terms of Toponymy. For that reason, we are guided especially by theoretical and methodological principles of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CABRE, 1999) and Toponymy (DICK, 1992).