The worldview of Emil Cioran and Louise Hay in the light of Corpus Linguistics

a terminographic definitional path

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to investigate the conceptual aspects of the worldview of the pessimistic philosopher Emil Cioran and the optimistic and motivational writer Louise Hay, bringing the definition of the term world present in the subcorpora of works by these authors. The methodology of the work comes from Corpus Linguistics, whose theoretical foundations are those of Berber Sardinha (2004), and Terminology and Terminography in Aubert (2001), Barros (2004) and Krieger and Finatto (2004), which provide the organization of concepts and the construction of a terminological definition for the desired term (world), in the texts of Cioran and Hay, supported by the creation of entries in Pontes (2009) and Fromm (2002, 2007). In this article, steps are outlined for completing the microstructure of an entry based on antagonistic works of literature, such as pessimism and optimism, and the semantic categorization of results, which makes it possible for more words from works like these to have adequate theoretical-methodological subsidy for the creation of new terminological entries.