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Terminology
Cognition, language and communication
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This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim to represent the author’s groundbreaking work on terminology, both from a theoretical as from a methodological and applied point of view. Part I includes texts on three fundamental aspects of terminology as a field of knowledge: Firstly, general articles on the rethinking of proposals made by other authors and on the bases for the formulation of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT). Secondly, articles that deal with the rethinking of the framework of this subject, with emphasis on specialised languages and communication. And thirdly, on the object of study: the terminological unit. Part II includes articles on methodology, international standards, and teaching terminology, and texts that deal with the intersection of terminology with other fields: Documentation, Translation, Neology, and Language Policy.
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 36] 2023. ix, 371 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 July 2023
Published online on 21 July 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–7
- Acknowledgments | pp. ix–9
- Introduction: A significant part of scientific life devoted to Terminology | pp. 1–5
- Part I. Fundamental elements of terminology as a field of knowledge
- Chapter 1. Terminology and linguistics: The model of doors | pp. 9–18
- Chapter 2. Theories of terminology, their description, prescription and explanation | pp. 19–50
- Chapter 3. Terminology, an evolving discipline: Past, present, and some elements of the future | pp. 51–68
- Chapter 4. The polyhedricity principle: Articulation between discourse, cognition and language in terminology (I) | pp. 69–89
- Chapter 5. The communicative theory of terminology, a linguistic approach to terms | pp. 91–97
- Chapter 6. Disciplinarisation of terminology: The contribution of linguistics | pp. 99–110
- Chapter 7. Current landscape of approaches to and tendencies in terminology | pp. 111–128
- Chapter 8. Textual analysis and terminology, activation factors of cognitive competence in translation | pp. 129–144
- Chapter 9. Specialised texts and units of knowledge: Methodology and typologisation (I) | pp. 145–160
- Chapter 10. On the mental representation of concepts: Foundations for an attempt at modelling | pp. 161–174
- Chapter 11. On the terminological unit: Analysis of its evolution and proposal for characterisation | pp. 175–187
- Chapter 12. On the fuzzy and confusing notion of specialized content | pp. 189–194
- Part II. Terminology at the intersection between interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity
- Chapter 13. Methodological consequences of the theoretical proposal | pp. 197–205
- Chapter 14. How new technologies have changed terminological methodology | pp. 207–228
- Chapter 15. Terminology and documentation | pp. 229–243
- Chapter 16. Terminology in specialised translation | pp. 245–278
- Chapter 17. Standard and standards in terminology: Concept, typology and justification | pp. 279–299
- Chapter 18. Terminology in language standardisation | pp. 301–309
- Chapter 19. Terminology implantation: Concepts, strategies, resources and studies conducted on the French language of Quebec and on the Catalan language | pp. 311–327
- Chapter 20. Terminologist training and terminology training: Some criteria that have remained valid throughout the years | pp. 329–338
- Chapter 21. Foundations for a theory of lexical neologisms: First reflections | pp. 339–356
- Bibliography | pp. 357–367
- Index | pp. 369–371
“[U]na fita que hem de celebrar i compartir. [...] El volum reuneix i organitza treballs fins ara esparsos, cosa que permet al lector tenir una visió global de la contribució de Cabré. A més, pel fet de presentar-los en anglès, els aproxima a molts més lectors dels que ha tingut fins ara la recerca de Cabré. L’obra ofereix un panorama de les principals aportacions de Cabré a la terminologia des d’un perspectiva teòrica, concretada en la Teoria Comunicativa de la Terminologia, metodològica i aplicada. [...] Les contribucions d’aquest volum es mouen entre el passat, el present i el futur de la terminologia, un recorregut en què les preguntes són tan importants com les respostes. Cabré explica i opina, guia el lector amb mà experta.”
Maria Josep Cuenca Ordinyana, Universitat de València/IIFV/IEC, in: Caplletra 76 (2024)
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