Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An Introduction

Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice #20

by Marie-Claude L'Homme

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 primarily focused on knowledge. Topics such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with examples taken from various fields of knowledge.
This book is an indispensable companion for those who are interested in words and work with specialized terms, e.g. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book complements other textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se.

285 pages, Paperback

Published January 15, 2020

Reviews

[Mohammad Aboomar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another try to knock conceptualization off its perch in terminology, this time using a combination of Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology and Frame Semantics.

The main downside of this approach is that is useful chiefly for producing dictionaries. It is (admittedly) not useful for standardization and knowledge modeling, two important applications for terminology.