Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The social dimension of variation
5. Chapter 1. The emotional dimension in terminological variation 11
6. Chapter 2. Term usage and socioterminological variation 31
7. Chapter 3. Diastratic variation in language for specific purposes 57
8. Part II. Tools and methods
9. Chapter 4. Towards a resource of semantically and contextually structured term variants and their translations 83
10. Chapter 5. Specialized verbs and specialized uses of verbs in a comparable corpus of judgments produced in Canada, Portugal and Brazil 109
11. Chapter 6. Should we be looking for the needle in the haystack or in the straw poll ? 131
12. Part III. Semantics of variation
13. Chapter 7. Terminological variation and the unsaturability of concepts 155
14. Chapter 8. Terminological metaphors and the nomadism of specialised terms 181
15. Chapter 9. Term and concept variation in specialized knowledge dynamics 213
16. Index 259