Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction – LSP studies xiii
5. Indeterminacy
6. Indeterminacy, context, economy and well-formedness in specialist communication 3
7. Lexical chains in technical translation 15
8. Eliminating indeterminacy 37
9. Indeterminacy of terms and icons in software localization 49
10. Indeterminacy
11. Epistemological aspects of indeterminacy in postmodernist science 61
12. No fixed boundaries 73
13. Commensurability of scientific theories and indeterminacy of terminological concepts 93
14. Concept formation and indeterminacy in the LSP of Economics 107
15. Vague legal concepts 119
16. Präzision versus Vagheit 135
17. Indeterminacy
18. Coping with indeterminacy 157
19. Ontologies and indeterminacy 181
20. Terminological modelling of processes 199
21. Heribert Picht
22. Heribert Picht 217
23. Contributors 231
24. Index 235