A linguistic description of shipbuilding and maritime english

Abstract

To outline the peculiar features in the portraits of the two languages for special purposes, the approach will consider Romanian scholars’ interest in the description of shipbuilding and maritime English. While their general features are similar to the properties of any other language for specific purposes, their specific lexical features reveal some degree of uniqueness. The final section of the approach will focus on the lexical particularities pertaining to either jargon.