Chapter 2
Theories of terminology, their description, prescription and
explanation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Why did Wüster develop his particular theory?
- 3.Why has so much time passed before innovative theoretical
contributions were made to the study of terminology?
- 4.Why, all of a sudden, have so many critical voices been raised,
both from inside traditional viewpoints and outside?
- 5.How have these new ideas been received?
- 6.What kind of theory would be required to account for all
terminology?
- 6.1The data being examined
- 6.2The notion of theory
- 7.Proposals for an integrated theory
- 7.1The assumptions
- 7.2The questions
- 7.3Approaching and accessing to the object
- 7.3.1Conceptions of terminology as an object
- 7.3.2About the approach to terminological units
- 8.The formulation of the propositions
- 9.Conclusions
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Notes