IL CAMBIAMENTO DEL LINGUAGGIO VETERINARIO: DALLA NOMENCLATURA VOLGARE DELLE MALATTIE A QUELLA SCIENTIFICA

The language of medicine, including veterinary medicine, undergoes continual changes, as scientific knowledge progresses. According to Ledermann, language has followed ”the prevailing idiom, the insipid and impersonal neutral North American”. This is a personal and emphatic judgment which, however, does show how medical language too, over time, has become an increasingly more concise means of communication among specialists. From this viewpoint, in order for specialized terminology to arise, three elements must be present at the same time: a) professional figures; b) a professional reality; c) use of specialized language