Lexicon and Terminology

The description of terminology has a number of dimensions, some of which are independent of lexicology and lexical semantics on the one hand, and lexicography on the other, as disciplines of descriptive and applied linguistics.

For present purposes, the sub-discipline `Terminology', as opposed to a terminology as a set of technical terms and their definitions, will be taken as covering the following areas:

1. Morphological analysis (word formation, including derivation and compounding; to a lesser extent inflection)
2. Lexicological analysis (including colligation, collication and lexical semantics)
3. Lexicographic methods (including corpus analysis, lexicographic database construction and access)
4. Term standardisation
5. Domain and task-oriented term creation

The first three interests are shared with the corresponding linguistic fields, and may, in relation to technical terms, be regarded as defining the field of descriptive terminology. The last two are later interests are peculiar to terminology, and may be regarded as defining the field of applied terminology (or prescriptive terminology).

 
• The onomasiological and semasiological perspectives
• Terminological macromodels and micromodels