Abstract

ALAYON, Alicia Norma  and  CASTRO OROZCO, Raimundo. IMAGINARY FRIENDS: A VALID RESOURCE FOR THE WRITING OF SCIENTIFIC TEXTS IN SPANISH?. Biosalud [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.1, pp.31-36. ISSN 1657-9550.

This article discusses the use of words, included in articles published, which are not formally accepted by the Spanish Royal Academy. In this way, the paper aims to open a space for discussion of academic criteria to validate or to censor the use of those terms. Accordingly, we propose a category called imaginary friends to refer to adapted or incorrectly used words, that without having any accepted denotation, end up occupying the site of accepted words by the Spanish Royal Academy.

Keywords : journal article; periodicals as topic; linguistics; publishing; terminology as topic; dictionary.

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