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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795261103321

Autore

L'Homme Marie-Claude

Titolo

Lexical semantics for terminology : an introduction / / Marie-Claude L'Homme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

90-272-6178-4

9789027261786 (Proquest Ebook Central)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Collana

Terminology and lexicography research and practice (TLRP), , 1388-8455 ; ; volume 20.

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Lexicology

Terms and phrases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Why apply lexical semantics in terminology? -- Terminology -- Lexical semantics for terminology -- What is a term? -- Concepts, meaning and polysemy -- Predicative terms, participants and arguments -- Relations between concepts and terms -- Discovering structures in specialized domains -- Equivalence in terminology.

Sommario/riassunto

"Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains how lexical analysis complements perspectives entirely focused on knowledge. Issues such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with various examples taken from different fields of knowledge. This book is intended for readers who are interested in words and need to handle specialized terms as part of their activities, i.e. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book should complement other



textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se"--