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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
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Terminology throughout history

An introduction

Published online: 23 May 2025
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Article outline
  • Terminology: An emerging discipline
  • Varying viewpoints on the early history of terminology
  • Phases in the development of terminological introspection
  • Early history
  • Developments in theory and methodology
  • Terminology the world over
  • Summing up
  • Notes
  • References
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