Marcel Diki-Kidiri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcel Diki-Kidiri is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 18. Cultural terminology: An African contribution Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making, Warburton, Kara and John Humbley (eds.), pp. 409–421 | Chapter
Until the 1980s, African linguistics was dominated by descriptive and comparative linguistics. Linguists strongly refrained from intervening in African languages and modifying them in any way so as not to distort linguistic authenticity. However, when some languages attained national or official… read more
2022 Chapter 9. Cultural Terminology: An introduction to theory and method Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge, Faber, Pamela and Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.), pp. 197–216 | Chapter
The aim of Cultural Terminology is not the international harmonization of multilingual terminologies but the appropriation of knowledge and know-how by a specific speaker community rooted in its culture. Cultural Terminology puts the human being at the center of the terminological process. The… read more
2014 5. Le vocabulaire juridique en sängö: une application de la terminologie culturelle Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication, Temmerman, Rita and Marc Van Campenhoudt (eds.), pp. 99–110 | Article
La terminologie culturelle a été conçue comme une méthode sûre d’appropriation des savoirs par une communauté linguistique. Le cas le plus pertinent où la terminologie culturelle révèle toute sa puissance est celui où des savoirs élaborés dans une autre culture et une autre langue doivent intégrer… read more