Lexical semantics for terminology : an introduction / Marie-Claude L'Homme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

L'Homme, Marie-Claude, author.

Series:

Terminology and lexicography research and practice ; v. 20.

Terminology and lexicography research and practice (TLRP), 1388-8455 ; volume 20.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicology.

Terms and phrases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains how lexical analysis complements perspectives entirely focused on knowledge. Issues such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with various examples taken from different fields of knowledge. This book is intended for readers who are interested in words and need to handle specialized terms as part of their activities, i.e. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book should complement other textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Why apply lexical semantics in terminology?

Terminology

Lexical semantics for terminology

What is a term?

Concepts, meaning and polysemy

Predicative terms, participants and arguments

Relations between concepts and terms

Discovering structures in specialized domains

Equivalence in terminology.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027261786 (Proquest Ebook Central)

9789027261786

9027261784