Crisis management terminological synonyms

Abstract

Linguistic risks must not affect negatively the quality of risk communication. It is advisable to know synonyms of the terms belonging to crisis management lexicon together with the differences in their denotations. Seemingly synonymous terms have to be further interpreted and classifi ed according to their occurrences and combinations. The analysis of terminological synonyms may result in the need to reassign a lexical entry, which is given inappropriate prominence in the current dictionaries and terminological glossaries.