Terminology and language planning : an alternative framework of practice and discourse / Bassey Edem Antia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antia, Bassey Edem.

Series:

Terminology and lexicography research and practice ; v. 2.

Terminology and lexicography research and practice, 1388-8455 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terms and phrases.

Language planning.

Knowledge representation (Information theory).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.

Summary:

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of 'glocalisation', among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map - in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests that to be relevant and sustainable, current LP would have to define its mission as the deregulation of access to specialised knowledge, and correspondingly be founded on substantially different methods and theoretical bases: epistemology and ontology of specialised domains; research on language for special purposes (LSP) and collocations; corpus linguistics; knowledge extraction and knowledge representation; language engineering technologies. On the one hand, the book recommends itself to decision-makers and language planning project managers. On the other, it should be of interest to students of LSP and terminology, language planning, concept and object theories, knowledge modelling, artificial intelligence, text and corpus management, translation process analysis, text and African linguistics.

Contents:

TERMINOLOGY AND LANGUAGE PLANNING

Editorial page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1.Terminology in Language Planning Theory

Chapter 2.Terminology Discourse and Practice in Africa: Issues, Players and Arenas

Chapter 3. Evaluation of a Terminology Resource

Chapter 4. Concept Theory in Terminology

Chapter 5. Collocations and Communication

Chapter 6. Terminography and Knowledge Representation

Chapter 7. Terminology, Text and Technology

Chapter 8. Applications: The Making of a Legislative Terminology Resource

Conclusion

Bibliography

Subject Index

Name Index

TERMINOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE (TLRP).

Notes:

Originally presented as vol. 1 of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162893

9781282162891

1282162896

9789027298645

9027298645

OCLC:

70764491