By Jennifer Pearson
ISBN-10: 1556193424
ISBN-13: 9781556193422
ISBN-10: 902722269X
ISBN-13: 9789027222695
ISBN-10: 9027298920
ISBN-13: 9789027298928
Publication One in a sequence that goals to supply insights into the way in which a corpus can be utilized, the kind of findings that may be acquired, and the potential purposes of those findings, in addition to the theoretical alterations that corpus paintings can carry into linguistics language engineering. this article seeks to illustrate that corpora can be utilized for semi-automatic terminography. Meta-language styles are a standard characteristic of specific sorts of specialised textual content and often provide clues to the which means sof the phrases to which they refer. This ebook describes a strategy for retrieving and manipulating those metalanguage styles in order to be utilized in the formula of terminological definitions.
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Standardizing bodies do not make any real attempt to disseminate the contents of their glossaries. For example, it would be reasonable to expect specialized dictionaries, which tend to be consulted more frequently than standards and which often specify in the introduction that standards have been consulted for the compilation of the dictionary, to flag those entries which have indeed been standardized. This does not happen and so the user has no means of knowing which term is preferable to another and may even innocently choose to select a term which would be considered to be deprecated by the standardizing bodies.
Herbert divides terms into two categories, the first consisting of highly technical terms which ‘‘usually have very specialized meanings’’ (1965: v). These are likely to be the subject specific terms referred to by Trimble and Trimble. His second category consists of ‘‘semi-scientific or semi-technical words which have a whole range of meanings and are frequently used idiomatically . . work, plant, load, feed, force’’ (1965: v). On the basis of the examples which Herbert provides, it seems that what he is suggesting is that there are general language words which, when used within special subject domains, may have different meanings from their general language meanings and/or may occasionally be used idiomatically.
That standardized terms become the terms which are used in text. e. Soll-Norm) approach views the relationship between a term and its concept as being static once it has been fixed. How would it deal with terms which are misused, abused or re-used with a new meaning? There is an assumption that terminology is used only by a closed expert commu- 16 jennifer pearson nity, and that each subject field has its own discrete terminology. When a lexical item cannot be said to belong exclusively to one subject field, terminologists are not in agreement on how it should be treated.
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