academic terminology

This article analyses the lexical, semantic and epistemological status of the adjective “computational” in Romanian academic language, starting from the observation that the term is frequently confused with the native adjective “computerizat” (computerised). The main objective is to demonstrate that the two terms are not synonyms and that “computational” fulfils a distinct terminological function, indispensable in the frontier domains of cognitive sciences. A secondary objective concerns the psycho-sociological and anthropological analysis of how this neologism reconfigures everyday vocabulary and social representations of technology.