SEDL / STP / STP806-EB / STP30142S

What Happens to Terms That Have Failed Standardization? They Live On and Proliferate in Dictionaries

Duquet-Picard, D
Ph.D. student in linguistics, Universit,

Pages: 10    Published: Jan 1983

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Abstract

Terminology standardization methods do not take into account all the specialized terms that are made up or derived from rejected or deprecated terms. Those illegitimate terms cause problems to the language expert wishing to use a standardized terminology. Some solutions are proposed in order to improve both terminology standards and specialized dictionaries.