基本説明
The volume brings together theory and practice of terminology and deals with such issues as the growing influence of European English on terminology, terminology on demand, setting up a national terminological infrastructure, the relevance of frames and contextual information for terminology, and standardisation through automated term extraction and editing tools. The book wants to demonstrate that terminology is of everyday importance and is of interest to everyone interested in the theory and practice of terminology, from terminologists to computer specialists to lecturers and students.
Full Description
Terminology in Everyday Life contains a selection of fresh and interesting articles by prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of terminology based on papers presented at an international terminology congress on the impact of terminology on everyday life. The volume brings together theory and practice of terminology and deals with such issues as the growing influence of European English on terminology, terminology on demand, setting up a national terminological infrastructure, the relevance of frames and contextual information for terminology, and standardisation through automated term extraction and editing tools. The book wants to demonstrate that terminology is of everyday importance and is of interest to everyone interested in the theory and practice of terminology, from terminologists to computer specialists to lecturers and students.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Thelen, Marcel); 2. Section I. Terminology and smaller language; 3. Synonymy and variation in the domain of digital terrestrial television: Is Italian at risk? (by Bertaccini, Franco); 4. Language (policy), translation and terminology in the European Union (by Fischer, Marta); 5. The situation and problems of Hungarian terminology (by Foris, Agota); 6. Translation-oriented terminology work in Hungary (by Murath, Judit); 7. Towards a national terminology infrastructure: The Swedish experience (by Nilsson, Henrik); 8. Section II. Best practices in terminology management; 9. Terminology on demand: Maintaining a terminological query service (by Dobrina, Claudia); 10. Frames, contextual information and images in terminology: A proposal (by Garcia de Quesada, Mercedes); 11. How much terminological theory do we need for practice?: An old pedagogical dilemma in a new field (by Korkas, Vassilis); 12. Ontological support for multilingual domain-specific translation dictionaries (by Temmerman, Rita); 13. Section III. Possibilities of terminological databases for different applications; 14. In praise of effective export terminology (by Dubroca Galin, Danielle); 15. Computer aided term bank creation and standardization: Building standardized term banks through automated term extraction and advanced editing tools (by Foo, Jody); 16. Competency-based job descriptions and termontography: The case of terminological variation (by Kerremans, Koen); 17. Proposals to standardize remote sensing terminology in Spanish (by Sanz Vicente, Lara); 18. Section IV. Terminology in a medical setting; 19. The PERTOMed project: Exploiting and validating terminological resources of comparable Russian-French-English corpora within pharmacovigilance (by Bousquet, Cedric); 20. Instrumentality in cognitive concept modelling (by Sambre, Paul); 21. Biographical notes; 22. Author index; 23. Subject index
