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Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies

Edited by Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts

Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world.… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] 2026. vi, 333 pp.

Terminology Beyond Terms

Edited by Pius ten Hacken and Rossella Resi

Special issue of Terminology 32:1 (2026) v, 154 pp.

Computational Terminology

Edited by Ayla Rigouts Terryn and Patrick Drouin

Special issue of Terminology 31:1 (2025) v, 170 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe

Edited by Rossella Resi and Frieda Steurs

This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 4] 2025. viii, 799 pp.

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making

Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 24] 2025. ix, 678 pp.

Terminology, Ideology and Discourse

Edited by Katia Peruzzo and Paola Catenaccio

Special issue of Terminology 30:1 (2024) v, 158 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology

Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert

As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 3] 2023. vii, 622 pp. | open access

Terminology: Cognition, language and communication

Teresa Cabré

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 36] 2023. ix, 371 pp.

The terminological impact of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond

Edited by Maria-Cornelia Wermuth and Paul Sambre

Special issue of Terminology 29:2 (2023) v, 214 pp.

Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge

Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important topics which have significantly influenced Terminology and its evolution.… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 23] 2022. vii, 598 pp.

The Corporate Terminologist

Kara Warburton

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions. It describes the needs of large corporations… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 21] 2021. xxiv, 249 pp.

Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries

Mariusz Piotr Kamiński

This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions. The main concern of the author is the role of a definition vocabulary in how foreign learners understand and perceive dictionary definitions. The author takes the… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 22] 2021. xv, 326 pp.

Terminology as a Societal Resource: Possibilities and Responsibilities in a Changing World

Edited by Nina Pilke, Niina Nissilä and Hans Landqvist

Special issue of Terminology 27:1 (2021) vi, 177 pp.

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction

Marie-Claude L'Homme

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 20] 2020. xxi, 263 pp.

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world

Edited by Abied Alsulaiman and Ahmed Allaithy

The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 2] 2019. vi, 267 pp.

Terminology and e-dictionaries

Edited by Amparo Alcina, Rute Costa and Christophe Roche

Special issue of Terminology 25:2 (2019) v, 152 pp.

Computational terminology and filtering of terminological information

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon, Kyo Kageura and Koichi Takeuchi

Special issue of Terminology 24:1 (2018) v, 147 pp.

Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation

Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Antonio Albaladejo-Martínez

In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and, in many cases, by their opacity. Traditionally, the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 17] 2018. vi, 354 pp.

Food and terminology: Expressing sensory experience in several languages

Edited by Rita Temmerman and Danièle Dubois

Special issue of Terminology 23:1 (2017) vi, 179 pp.

Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.This reader is built around three themes arranged according to… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 18] 2017. vi, 260 pp.

New Insights into the Semantics of Legal Concepts and the Legal Dictionary

Martina Bajčić

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology. While legal concepts frame legal knowledge and take center stage in law, the discipline of terminology has traditionally been about concept description. Exploring topics common to both disciplines such as meaning,… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 17] 2017. xi, 222 pp.

Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications

Béatrice Daille

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that lead to their formation. It… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 19] 2017. xii, 272 pp.

Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech

Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková

A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1

Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs

Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, including computer, corpus, variational,… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 1] 2015. xix, 539 pp.

Terminology across Languages and Domains

Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon and Kyo Kageura

Special issue of Terminology 21:2 (2015) v, 153 pp.

Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication

Edited by Rita Temmerman and Marc Van Campenhoudt

The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 16] 2014. vi, 305 pp.

Lexical semantic approaches to terminology

Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme

Special issue of Terminology 20:2 (2014) v, 161 pp.

Ressources Lexicales: Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation

Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils et de… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 30] 2013. xii, 364 pp.

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury

The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.

The Quantitative Analysis of the Dynamics and Structure of Terminologies

Kyo Kageura

The dynamics and systematicity of terminology: this book addresses these essential and intriguing aspects of terminology, by using quantitative methodologies which have been underutilized in the field to date. Through the analysis of the Japanese terminologies of six domains and with special… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 15] 2012. xix, 243 pp.

Researching Specialized Languages

Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.

Teaching and Learning Terminology: New strategies and methods

Edited by Amparo Alcina

This volume, which was originally published in Terminology 15:1 (2009), presents and reflects on experiences dealing with terminology training, from a theoretical, practical and professional perspective. Terminology is part of the programmes of several (post)graduate courses, such as Translating… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 35] 2011. ix, 157 pp.

Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie

Edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily

Bringing together fifteen articles by scholars in Europe and North America, this collection aims to represent and advance studies in historical lexis. It highlights the significance of the understanding of dictionary-making and language-making as important socio-cultural phenomena. With its general… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 14] 2011. xvi, 292 pp.

Probing Semantic Relations: Exploration and identification in specialized texts

Edited by Alain Auger and Caroline Barrière

Semantic relations are at the core of any representational system, and are keys to enable the next generation of information processing systems with semantic and reasoning capabilities. Acquisition, description, and formalization of semantic relations are fundamentals in computer-based systems… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 23] 2010. ix, 156 pp.

Terminology in Everyday Life

Edited by Marcel Thelen and Frieda Steurs

Terminology in Everyday Life contains a selection of fresh and interesting articles by prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of terminology based on papers presented at an international terminology congress on the impact of terminology on everyday life. The volume brings together theory… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 13] 2010. vi, 271 pp.

Lexicography in the 21st Century: In honour of Henning Bergenholtz

Edited by Sandro Nielsen and Sven Tarp

This is a state-of-the-art volume on lexicography at the beginning of the 21st century. It also offers proposals for future theoretical and practical work. The contributions, inspired by the ground-breaking work of Henning Bergenholtz, address topics such as dictionary functions; dictionary users;… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 12] 2009. xi, 341 pp.

Pedagogical Specialised Lexicography: The representation of meaning in English and Spanish business dictionaries

Pedro A. Fuertes Olivera and Ascensión Arribas-Baño

This stimulating new book, which combines dictionary research and linguistic knowledge, analyses the representation of meaning in business dictionaries from a pedagogical perspective. By examining in detail the macrostructure, mediostructure, access structure and microstructure of eight business… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 11] 2008. ix, 165 pp.

Application-Driven Terminology Engineering

Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Anne Condamines and Teresa Cabré

A common framework under which the various studies on terminology processing can be viewed is to consider not only the texts from which the terminological resources are built but particularly the applications targeted. The current book, first published as a Special Issue of Terminology 11:1 (2005),… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 2] 2007. vii, 203 pp.

Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective

Heming Yong and Jing Peng

This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 9] 2007. x, 229 pp.

Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004

Edited by Henrik Gottlieb and Jens Erik Mogensen

This book is about dictionaries and dictionary making. In six thematic sections it presents nineteen contributions covering a wide field within lexicography: Online Lexicography, Dictionary Structure, Phraseology in Dictionaries, LSP Lexicography, Dictionaries and the User, plus Etymology, History… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 10] 2007. xii, 321 pp.

Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP: Studies in honour of Heribert Picht

Edited by Bassey E. Antia

This book deals with the oft-neglected tensions between perspicuity and fuzziness in specialised communication. It describes the manifestations, functions and implications of indeterminacy phenomena in a range of LSP specialisations where it has been customary to expect precision and consistency.… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 8] 2007. xxii, 236 pp.

Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography

Edited by Wolfgang Teubert

The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp.

A Practical Guide to Lexicography

Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg

This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 6] 2003. xii, 460 pp.

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 2: Application-Oriented Terminology Management

Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin

The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.g., engineers, medical professionals, etc.), standardizers and others who have to solve terminological problems in their daily work.In… read more

[Not in series, HTM 2] 2001. xvi, 550 pp.

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications

Teresa Cabré

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology. The book covers its subject comprehensively and deals among other things with concepts (the relation between… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 1] 1999. xii, 248 pp.

Handbook of Terminology Management: Volume 1: Basic Aspects of Terminology Management

Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin

[Not in series, HTM 1] 1997. xiv, 372 pp.

Essays on Terminology

Alain Rey

A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English. The chapters deal with the origins of terminology, theoretical issues, social aspects, neologisms and evolution, lexicology and lexicography, applied issues, description and… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 9] 1995. xiv, 223 pp.

Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The preparation of specialised dictionaries

Edited by Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp

From 1990–1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled “translation of LSP texts”, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography.The Manual of Specialised Lexicography is one of the results of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 12] 1995. 256 pp.

Terminology: Applications in interdisciplinary communication

Edited by Helmi B. Sonneveld and Kurt L. Loening

In the era of information technology, the need to communicate data effetively and precisely has given a boost to research in terminology. This collection of 14 articles by experts from different backgrounds deals with linguistic problems and technical aspects of terminology; in addition, there are… read more

[Not in series, 70] 1993. viii, 244 pp.

A Practical Course in Terminology Processing

Juan C. Sager

Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer. Terminology management has proved to be an efficient tool in international communications in industry, education and international organisations. Software packages are… read more

[Not in series, 44] 1990. xi, 258 pp.

A Spectrum of Lexicography

Edited by Robert F. Ilson

This collection presents a balanced yet vivid picture of many of the domains of activity of lexicography. Ten contributors from eight countries discuss monolingual dictionaries (for learners and native speakers), bilingual dictionaries, an original approach to computer-aided lexicography, and the… read more

[Not in series, 28] 1987. ix, 158 pp.