Terminology And Language Planning: An Alternative Framework Of Practice And Discourse (terminology And Lexicography Research And Practice)
2000 / English / PDF
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Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of
‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy
attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language
planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and
1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests that to be
relevant and sustainable, current LP would have to define its
mission as the deregulation of access to specialised knowledge, and
correspondingly be founded on substantially different methods and
theoretical bases: epistemology and ontology of specialised
domains; research on language for special purposes (LSP) and
collocations; corpus linguistics; knowledge extraction and
knowledge representation; language engineering technologies. On the
one hand, the book recommends itself to decision-makers and
language planning project managers. On the other, it should be of
interest to students of LSP and terminology, language planning,
concept and object theories, knowledge modelling, artificial
intelligence, text and corpus management, translation process
analysis, text and African linguistics.
Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of
‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy
attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language
planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and
1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests that to be
relevant and sustainable, current LP would have to define its
mission as the deregulation of access to specialised knowledge, and
correspondingly be founded on substantially different methods and
theoretical bases: epistemology and ontology of specialised
domains; research on language for special purposes (LSP) and
collocations; corpus linguistics; knowledge extraction and
knowledge representation; language engineering technologies. On the
one hand, the book recommends itself to decision-makers and
language planning project managers. On the other, it should be of
interest to students of LSP and terminology, language planning,
concept and object theories, knowledge modelling, artificial
intelligence, text and corpus management, translation process
analysis, text and African linguistics.
