Terminology today: a science, an art or a practice? : some aspects on terminology and its development

Vol.36,No.1(2010)

Dagmar Sageder

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/105092

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Abstract
During the past several decades, the theory of terminology has been a subject of debates in various circles. The views on terminology as a scientific discipline vary considerably. Currently, there are a number of treatments of this field and a number of debatable questions involved. Is terminology a science, or just a practice? Does terminology have a status of separate scholarly discipline with its own theory or does it owe its theoretical assumptions to more consolidated disciplines?

Keywords:
terminology; a theory of Terminology; empirical studies of terminology; terminological units; term growth; term formation

Pages:
123–134
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