Chapter 7
Multilingual legal dictionaries
Towards a termontontological dictionary of EU law
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.2Reinventing the dictionary
- 7.2.1The future of legal dictionaries: Going digital and cognitive
- 7.3The role of theory in the making of dictionaries
- 7.3.1Terminography
- 7.3.2Domains
- 7.4The role of definitions in a legal dictionary
- 7.4.1Redefining the role of legal definitions
- 7.4.2The problems of defining and categorizing EU legal concepts
- 7.4.3Subject-field classification: Demarcation of EU law
- 7.5Filling a gap in legal lexicography
- 7.5.1Prototype giveth, terminography taketh
- 7.5.2Teleological definitions
- 7.6Integrating extralinguistic information into the dictionary
- 7.6.1Parts of the ontological structure
- 7.7Summary
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Notes