Terminology: Custodian of knowledge and means of knowledge transfer

Sager, Juan C.

doi:10.1075/term.1.1.03sag

Article published In: Terminology
Vol. 1:1 (1994) ► pp.7–15

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Terminology

Custodian of knowledge and means of knowledge transfer

Juan C. Sager | University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology

Published online: 1 January 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/term.1.1.03sag

This article places terminology in relation to linguistics and cognitive science and traces its historic evolution and perception in order to assess its current instrumental role in knowledge acquisition, representation and transfer via language. The environment of information technology permits the full exploitation of terminology and demonstrates the basically applied nature of the discipline.

Keywords: Terminology, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Transfer

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