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In:Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 24] 2025
► pp. 117–145

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Chapter 6
Paasch, pioneer of modern terminography

 | Université libre de Bruxelles
Published online: 23 May 2025
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Abstract
From Keel to Truck is a vast trilingual (English, French, German) dictionary that was highly successful in the late 19th century. To complete the work, author Heinrich Paasch builds on a long tradition of marine dictionaries and develops an original terminographical method which would foreshadow 20th-century theory for the discipline of terminology. His highly structured book prefigures terminological knowledge bases: a monosemic approach, reliance on semantic relationships, and close attention to divergences between languages.
Article outline
  • 1.Who is Heinrich Paasch?
  • 2.The precursors of Paasch in the maritime area
  • 3.Paasch’s methodology
    • 3.1Two key dates: 1890 and 1894
    • 3.2The terminological record: Precursor to digital models
    • 3.3Illustrations
    • 3.4An interlinguistic conceptual network
      • 3.4.1The principle of conceptual equivalence (PCE)
      • 3.4.2Towards a multiplication of the number of concepts?
      • 3.4.3Equivalence in illustrations
    • 3.5The macrostructure
      • 3.5.1Systematic ordering
        • 3.5.1.1Hierarchical relationships
        • 3.5.1.2Coordinate relationships
        • 3.5.1.3Example of systematic ordering
      • 3.5.2Alphabetical ordering
        • 3.5.2.1General principle
        • 3.5.2.2Typical structure
    • 3.6The indices
  • 4.An innovative method rather than a school
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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