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.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xv
Globalisation, Language Planning and Terminology
xvi
About this book: Specific motivations and contents
xxi
1. Terminology in Language Planning Theory
1
2. Terminology Discourse and Practice in Africa Issues, Players and Arenas
17
3. Evaluation of a Terminology Resource
49
4. Concept Theory in Terminology
81
5. Collocations and Communication
117
6. Terminography and Knowledge Representation
139
7. Terminology, Text and Technology
153
8. Applications: The Making of a Legislative Terminology Resource