Table of contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part I.Fundamental elements of terminology as a field of knowledge
7
Chapter 1.Terminology and linguistics: The model of doors
9
Chapter 2.Theories of terminology, their description, prescription and explanation
19
Chapter 3.Terminology, an evolving discipline: Past, present, and some elements of the future
51
Chapter 4.The polyhedricity principle: Articulation between discourse, cognition and language in terminology
(I)
69
Chapter 5.The communicative theory of terminology, a linguistic approach to
terms
91
Chapter 6.Disciplinarisation of terminology: The contribution of linguistics
99
Chapter 7.Current landscape of approaches to and tendencies in terminology
111
Chapter 8.Textual analysis and terminology, activation factors of cognitive
competence in translation
129
Chapter 9.Specialised texts and units of knowledge: Methodology and typologisation (I)
145
Chapter 10.On the mental representation of concepts: Foundations for an attempt at modelling
161
Chapter 11.On the terminological unit: Analysis of its evolution and proposal for characterisation
175
Chapter 12.On the fuzzy and confusing of specialized content
189
Part II.Terminology at the intersection between interdisciplinarity and
transdisciplinarity
195
Chapter 13.Methodological consequences of the theoretical proposal
197
Chapter 14.How new technologies have changed terminological methodology
207
Chapter 15.Terminology and documentation
229
Chapter 16.Terminology in specialised translation
245
Chapter 17.Standard and standards in terminology: Concept, typology and justification
279
Chapter 18.Terminology in language standardisation
301
Chapter 19.Terminology implantation: Concepts, strategies, resources and studies conducted on the French
language of Quebec and on the Catalan language
311
Chapter 20.Terminologist training and terminology training: Some criteria that have remained valid throughout the years
329
Chapter 21.Foundations for a theory of lexical neologisms: First reflections
339
Bibliography
357
Index
369