Table of contents
Introduction: Multiple perspectives on terminological variation
Part I.The social dimension of variation
Chapter 1.The emotional dimension in terminological variation: The example of transitivization of the locative complement in fishing
Chapter 2.Term usage and socioterminological variation: The impact of social and local issues on the movement of terms
Chapter 3.Diastratic variation in language for specific purposes: Observations from the analysis of two corpora
Part II.Tools and methods
Chapter 4.Towards a resource of semantically and contextually structured term variants and their translations
Chapter 5.Specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs in a comparable corpus of judgments produced in Canada, Portugal and Brazil
Chapter 6.Should we be looking for the needle in the haystack or in the straw poll?
Part III.Semantics of variation
Chapter 7.Terminological variation and the unsaturability of concepts
Chapter 8.Terminological metaphors and the nomadism of specialised terms: Some observations on intralinguistic and interlinguistic variation
Chapter 9.Term and concept variation in specialized knowledge dynamics
Index
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