Aurélie Picton

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aurélie Picton is involved.

Title

Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.This reader is built around three themes arranged according to… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 18] 2017. vi, 260 pp.

Bessé, Bruno de, Aurélie Picton and Donatella Pulitano 2025 Chapter 30. Terminology in Switzerland: From practice to theory and back Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making, Warburton, Kara and John Humbley (eds.), pp. 630–643 | Chapter

This chapter presents the history of terminology in Switzerland, from the early 1980s to present day. It recounts the birth of the profession in this context and the simultaneous creation of the Terminology programme at the University of Geneva: indeed, the history of terminology in Switzerland… read more

Condamines, Anne, Valérie Delavigne, François Gaudin and Aurélie Picton 2025 Chapter 11. Socioterminology and Textual terminology: From texts to uses of terms Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making, Warburton, Kara and John Humbley (eds.), pp. 233–251 | Chapter

This chapter describes a part of the history of terminology, through the narrative of the emergence of two schools of thought in France: Socioterminology and Textual terminology. The authors of this chapter make no claim to represent French terminology per se. They seek to reflect on how… read more

Condamines, Anne and Aurélie Picton 2022 Chapter 10. Textual Terminology: Origins, principles and new challenges Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge, Faber, Pamela and Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.), pp. 219–236 | Chapter

This chapter deals with Textual Terminology, an approach that emerged in the early 1990s along with other approaches presented in this book. One of its main characteristics is that it arose from an encounter between related disciplines that focused on the use of text mining (Natural Language… read more

Humbley, John and Aurélie Picton 2017 Introduction: Multiple perspectives on terminological variation Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation, Drouin, Patrick, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction

Picton, Aurélie and Pascaline Dury 2017 Chapter 3. Diastratic variation in language for specific purposes: Observations from the analysis of two corpora Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation, Drouin, Patrick, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton (eds.), pp. 57–79 | Chapter

In this chapter, we examine the possibility of analyzing diastratic variation in the context of specialized discourse. In order to do so, we first show that diastratic variation is still in need of a clear definition when applied to specialized languages. We then present the results obtained from… read more

Picton, Aurélie 2014 8. The dynamics of terminology in short-term diachrony: A proposal for a corpus-based methodology to observe knowledge evolution Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication, Temmerman, Rita and Marc Van Campenhoudt (eds.), pp. 159–182 | Article

This chapter presents a corpus-based methodology to observe the dynamics of terminology in short-term diachrony. This study responds to a request from the French national space agency and illustrates how a practical context offers new perspectives on the diachronic dimension in terminology. The… read more

Picton, Aurélie 2011 Picturing short-period diachronic phenomena in specialised corpora: A textual terminology description of the dynamics of knowledge in space technologies The dynamics of terms in specialized communication: An interdisciplinary perspective, Temmerman, Rita and Marc Van Campenhoudt (eds.), pp. 134–156 | Article

This article presents a first description and a proposal for the classification of the evolution phenomena involved in short-term diachrony in the field of space. It is based on the principles of Textual Terminology and relies on a tool-based analysis of two diachronic corpora. The linguistic… read more

Picton, Aurélie 2011 Review of Rainer & Peters (2009): Methodological Issues in Terminology Research Terminology 17:2, pp. 284–287 | Review