Theory and practice of specialised online dictionaries : lexycography versus terminography / Pedro A. Fuentes-Olivera, Sven Tarp

Introduction. -- What is Specialised Lexicography?. – Definitions. -- Dictionaries versus encyclopaedias. -- Typology of specialised online dictionaries. -- Academic Status of Specialised Lexicography. -- A discipline with its own subject field. -- Relation to linguistics. -- Relation to terminology and terminography. -- Relation to information science. -- Concept of Lexicographical Theory. -- Is lexicography a science?. -- A lexicographical theory is posible. -- Additional remarks on the concept of lexicographical theory. -- General Theory of Specialised Dictionaries. -- Utility tools and user needs. -- Concept of user needs. -- Data and information. -- Lexicographical functions. -- General methodology: an example. -- Prescription, description or proscription?. -- The lexicographical process: the lexicographer’s perspective. -- The lexicographical process: the user’s perspective. -- Special Problems Related to Online Dictionaries. -- Data filtering. -- The type and the individual. -- Access to supplementary data. -- The use of corpora and the Internet. -- Online communication with the user. -- Shortening the access route. -- A Critical View of Terminography. -- Theories of terminology. -- Traditional terminology: The General Theory of Terminology. -- Terminology and linguistics. -- Cabré and the Communicative Theory of Terminology. -- Temmerman and the Sociocognitive Approach. -- Martin, Faber and frame-based terminology. -- Terminology and knowledge engineering. – Summary. -- An Analysis of Specialised Online Dictionaries. -- A functional framework to dictionary criticism: A list of criteria for reviewing specialised online dictionaries. -- The Dictionary of Business and Management. -- The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online. -- The Musikordbogen. -- The Glossary of Mortgage and Home Equity Terms. -- The Cambridge Business English Dictionary. – TermFinder. -- The Business English-Spanish Glossary by A.D. Miles. -- The Glossary of FAO Database and Information Systems. – Kicktionary. -- IATE, CercaTerm and UNTERM. -- Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE). – CercaTerm. -- The United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM). -- The Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages. -- The European Dictionary of Skills and Competences (Disco). -- Genoma and EcoLexicon. – Genoma. – EcoLexicon. -- Summary and The Work Ahead: Working with the Function Theory of Lexicography. -- Designing, Making and Updating Specialised Online Dictionaries. -- A Multidisciplinary Activity. -- Pre-compilation phase. -- Compilation Phase. -- Lemma Selection. -- Explanation of meaning. -- Restricting Meaning. -- Contextualising Meaning. -- Offering More Choices.. -- The Post-Compilation Phase: A Process of Continuous Updating. -- Summary and Conclusion. – Conclusions.

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