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Reterminologization represents an active semantic process of forming specialized languages of different scientificand technical fields and disciplines. In this process, a term from a certain specialized language develops new meanings either in the languages of disciplines from other fields of reference, or in the languages of other disciplines in the same scientific field, or in the specialized language of the same scientific discipline. From the perspective of reterminologization, sports language is of particular interest, because, on the one hand, it contains a considerable number of terms coming from various specialized languages, and on the other hand, it serves as a source of enrichment of the terminologies of other scientific fields. In addition, within the sports terminology system there are numerous polysemantic terms, arising as a result of reterminologization. In the present article, an analysis of the main visions regarding reterminologization as a linguistic phenomenon is performed, a classification of the types of reterminologization is proposed according to the opposition of emitting domain / receiving domain (trans-domain / intra-domain reterminologization) and the opposition of emitting discipline / receiving discipline (trans-disciplinary / intra-disciplinary reterminologization). It is illustrated the migration of terms in both directions: both from the languages of other fields / disciplines (military art, mathematics, architecture and constructions, technical or artistic fields, medical-biological sciences, law, etc.) in the sports one, as well as the ingress of the sports terms in other languages (technical, medical, information, etc.), is exemplified the resemantization of sports terms in the process of intra-domain reterminologization. It has been found that reterminologization is based on relationships of similarity and logical contiguity, in other words, semantic mutations (metaphorization and metonymy) represent the main reterminologization techniques in Romanian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many terms created by modifying or transferring the underlying meaning in current specialized languages, metaphorization being a semantic process at which terminologies are used at all stages of their formation. In the present paper, the metaphorization process in the specialized languages is analyzed, the way in which the meanings of the words evolve in the process of terminology and reorganization of the sports language in Romanian, the conceptual source domains of Romanian sports terms formed by metaphorization were determined and illustrated with concrete examples. As a result of the analysis carried out in the paper, it was found that in the sports language, the terms formed by metaphorization were taken from both the common language (through a terminology process) and from other specialized languages (military, biological, geographic, etc.) , being subjected to the process of re-terminologization. Often, the latter also cross the stage of de-terminologization. Five of the six source domains of conceptual metaphors attested in contemporary Romanian are also found in the specialized sports language: Objects, Plants, Animals, Man, Natural phenomena. There is a trend of predominance of the object-oriented conceptual model and the anthropomorphic one, these categories are the most numerous in the examples chosen by us. The conceptual metaphors of the sports language are based especially on form similarities and those related to the character of movements. The phenomenon can be explained by the fact that most of the metaphor terms are created by association with man's own image and the objects of everyday life, most of which are visual images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]