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Handbook of Terminology : Volume 1 by Hendrik J. Kockaert, KU Leuven, University of the Free State; Frieda Steurs, KU Leuven, University of the Free State, Université Catholique de L'Ouest is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Handbook of Terminology : Volume 1 about?

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

Who reads Handbook of Terminology : Volume 1?

Author

Hendrik J. Kockaert, KU Leuven, University of the Free State; Frieda Steurs, KU Leuven, University of the Free State, Université Catholique de L'Ouest

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027269560

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction