Terms in Context

The first three chapters of this book are designed to be introductory chapters and will appeal to a greater or lesser degree to each of the above named communities depending on their familiarity with these areas. The first chapter aims to introduce non-terminologists to the principles of terminology, the notion of languages for specific purposes and sublanguage. As it challenges some of the traditional distinctions which terminologists make between terms and words, it should also be of some interest to terminologists. Chapter two, which provides an overviewof corpus types and corpus compilation and text classification criteria is aimed at those who have little previous experience of working with corpora and specialised corpora in particular. Chapter three provides a general introduction to different approaches to general lexicography and should be of interest to those who have previously worked only in the area of specialised lexicography or terminography. The remaining chapters of this book describe how we devised and implemented our approach to corpus-based terminography.