Danielle Candel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Danielle Candel is involved.
2025 Chapter 21. Terminology in France: Evolution of its official framework Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making, Warburton, Kara and John Humbley (eds.), pp. 460–475 | Chapter
This chapter deals with the history, theories and practices of official terminology in France. The establishment of official French terminology, including neology, was initiated in the 19th century in France but was formalised and intensified in recent decades. Terminological activity in France,… read more
2022 Chapter 2. General principles of Wüster’s General Theory of Terminology Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge, Faber, Pamela and Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.), pp. 37–60 | Chapter
This chapter introduces Terminology as presented by Wüster, based on his writing as well as on unpublished notes and letters. First an engineer specialized in sawing and woodworking tools, Wüster became interested in language, and lectured at the University of Vienna in Lexicology, Lexicography,… read more
2008 Une analyse méthodique pour l’extraction terminologique dans le domaine du nucléaire Terminology 14:2, pp. 183–203 | Article
This article describes an evaluation of the Syntex tool used to define a terminology reference frame base for building a new dictionary. This tool is then used in an experiment in which technical terms are extracted from different corpora. These terms belong to the sub-domains “Fuel” and “Reactors”… read more
2007 Aspects de la linguistique prescriptive: Les perceptions des vocabulaires de specialité à travers des dictionnaires français (XIXe et XXe s.) History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 372–385 | Article
The aim of this study is to point out some characteristics of prescriptivism and their links to descriptivism. We first analyse the representation of how specialized vocabulary, scientific and technical words should be used, according to Biscarrat’s dictionary (1835): we uncover a typology of terms… read more



