Handbook of terminology : volume 1 / edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert, Frieda Steurs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kockaert, Hendrik.

Steurs, F. (Frieda)

Series:

Handbook of Terminology ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Names.

Terms and phrases.

Terminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 539 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2015.

Summary:

Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, including computer, corpus, variational, socio-cognitive and socio-communicative linguistics, and frame-based semantics, but also from engineering and formal language developers. In this ever changing and diverse context, Terminology offers a wide range of opportunities ranging from standardized and prescriptive to prototype and user-based approaches. At this point of its road map, Terminology can nowadays claim to offer user-based and user-oriented, hence user-friendly, approaches to terminological phenomenona, when searching, extracting and analysing relevant terminology in online corpora, when building term bases that contribute to efficient communication among domain experts in languages for special purposes, or even when proposing terms and definitions formed on the basis of a generally agreed consensus in international standard bodies. Terminology is now ready to advance further, thanks to the integration of meaning description taking into account dynamic natural language phenomena, and of consensus-based terminology management in order to help experts communicate in their domain-specific languages. In this Handbook of Terminology (HoT), the symbiosis of Terminology with Linguistics allows a mature and multi-dimensional reflection on terminological phenomena, which will eventually generate future applications which have not been tested yet in natural language. The HoT aims at disseminating knowledge about terminology (management) and at providing easy access to a large range of topics, traditions, best practices, and methods to a broad audience: students, researchers, professionals and lecturers in Terminology, scholars and experts from other disciplines (among which linguistics, life sciences, metrology, chemistry, law studies, machine engineering, and actually any expert domain). In addition, the HoT addresses any of those with a professional or personal interest in (multilingual) terminology, translation, interpreting, localization, editing, etc., such as communication specialists, translators, scientists, editors, public servants, brand managers, engineers, (intercultural) organization specialists, and experts in any field.

Contents:

Introduction / Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs

Foreword / Dirk Geeraerts

PART I. FUNDAMENTALS FOR TERM BASE DEVELOPMENT

Terms and specialized vocabulary: Taming the prototypes / Pius ten Hacken

Frames as a framework for terminology / Pamela Faber

How to build terminology science? / Loic Depecker

Terminology and lexicography / Kyo Kageura

Intensional definitions / Georg Löckinger, Hendrik J. Kockaert and Gerhard Budin

Enumerations count: Extensional and partitive definitions / Henrik Nilsson

Associative relations and instrumentality in causality / Paul Sambre and Cornelia Wermuth

Ontological definition / Christophe Roche

Domain specificity: Semasiological and onomasiological knowledge representation / Claudia Santos and Rute Costa

Getting to the core of a terminological project / Claudia Dobrina

PART II. METHODS AND TECHNOLOGY

Automatic Term Extraction / Kris Heylen and Dirk De Hertog

Terminology tools / Frieda Steurs, Ken De Wachter and Evy De Malsche

Concept modeling vs. data modeling in practice / Bodil Nistrup Madsen and Hanne Erdman Thomsen

Machine translation, translation memory and terminology managementPeter Reynolds

PART III. MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA)

Terminology work and crowdsourcing: Coming to terms with the crowd / Barbara Inge Karsch

Terminology and translation / Lynne Bowker

Managing terminology projects: Concepts, tools and methods / Silvia Cerrella Bauer

Terminology management within a translation quality assurance process / Monika Popiolek

Managing terminology in commercial environments / Kara Warburton

TBX: A terminology exchange format for the translation and localization industry / Alan K. Melby

PART IV. CASE STUDIES

Using frame semantics to build a bilingual lexical resource on legal terminology / Janine Pimentel

Terminology and localization / Klaus-Dirk Schmitz

PART V. LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY: PLANNING AND POLICY

Language policy and terminology in South Africa / Bassey E. Antia

Language policies and terminology policies in Canada / Nelida Chan

PART VI. TERMINOLOGY AND INTERCULTURALITY

The social and organizational context of terminology work: Purpose, environment and stakeholders / Anja Drame

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027269560 (ebook)

9789027257772 (hbk.)

OCLC:

905992916