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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822562903321

Autore

Pearson Jennifer

Titolo

Terms in Context [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998

ISBN

1-282-16313-2

9786612163135

90-272-9892-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

Lexicography

Semantics

Terms and phrases -- Data processing

Terms and phrases - Data processing

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Terms in context; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 0 Introduction; 1 Identifying differences between words and terms; 2 Corpora, corpus design and corpus selection; 3 Dictionaries and defining strategies; 4 Analysis of Definitions in Text; 5 Defining as a Performative Act; 6 Retrieval of terms from the corpora; 7 Retrieval of formal and semi-formal defining expositives; 8 Synonymy, substitution and paraphrasing; 9 Using the term as the node; 10 Summary; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL)

Sommario/riassunto

Terms in Context applies the methodology that has been developed over the last two decades in corpus linguistics to the relatively new and still little developed field of corpus-based terminography. While corpora are already being used by some terminologists for the identification of terms and retrieval of contextual fragments, this book describes the first attempt to use corpora for terminography in much the same way as large general reference corpora are already being used



for general language lexicography. The author goes beyond the standard problem of identifying terms as opposed to