Abstract:
This paper analyzes communicability trends of disease terms developed in
Mozambican languages based on terminology development strategies. Methodologically, a
corpus consisting of 166 terms associated with 12 diseases developed in 6 Mozambican
languages was compiled. Based on the terminological dimensions (cognitive, linguistic and
communicative) (Sager, 1990), the study found that, communicability hierarchizes the
strategies of term development. The study concludes that term development in the
Mozambican languages requires that an assessment of communicability levels be
considered in order to safeguard communication.
