Table of contents
Theoretical perspectives on Terminology: An introduction1
Part 1.General Theory of Terminology (and beyond)
Chapter 1.The reception of Wüster’s General Theory of Terminology15
Chapter 2.General principles of Wüster’s General Theory of Terminology37
Part 2.Knowledge-based terminology
Chapter 3.Conceptual relations: From the General Theory of Terminology to knowledge bases63
Chapter 4.Terminology and standards87
Chapter 5.Concept management for Terminology: A Knowledge Engineering approach111
Chapter 6.Multidimensionality127
Chapter 7.Terminology and ontologies149
Part 3.Socioterminology and Cultural Terminology
Chapter 8.Founding principles of Socioterminology177
Chapter 9.Cultural Terminology: An introduction to theory and method197
Part 4.Textual Terminology, Terminology and Lexical Semantics
Chapter 10.Textual Terminology: Origins, principles, and new challenges219
Chapter 11.Terminology and Lexical Semantics237
Part 5.Corpus-based Terminology
Chapter 12.Text genres and Terminology263
Chapter 13.Knowledge patterns in corpora291
Chapter 14.Terminology and distributional analysis of corpora311
Part 6.Terminology and Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter 15.Units of understanding in Sociocognitive Terminology studies331
Chapter 16.Frame-based Terminology353
Chapter 17.Conceptual metaphors377
Part 7.Variation and equivalence
Chapter 18.Causes of terminological variation399
Chapter 19.Diachronic variation421
Chapter 20.Cognitive approaches to the study of term variation435
Chapter 21.Terminological growth457
Chapter 22.Terminology and equivalence477
References503
Standards and resources cited in chapters575
Biographical notes583
Index591
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