Abstract

EDO MARZA, Nuria. SPECIALISED LEXICOGRAPHY AND SPECIALISED LANGUAGES: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE ELABORATION OF SPECIALISED DICTIONARIES. Lingüística [online]. 2012, vol.27, n.1, pp.98-135. ISSN 2079-312X.

The present article aims to put forward in a progressive and sequential but also integrated manner a theoretical-practical approach for the development of specialised dictionaries from an active perspective focused on the user, on his/her needs and in accordance with current terminographical research, linguistic-communicative in nature. This will lead to the final adoption of the label “specialised lexicography” to make reference to the theoretical-methodological foundations that rule or should rule the development of such speciality dictionaries. With this aim in mind and from a theoretical perspective, the three main pillars on which specialised lexicography is sustained have been analysed, namely, (1) specialised languages, (2) terminology, understood here from the Communicative Theory of Terminology (Cabré 1999) and (3) corpus linguistics as the necessary means for the analysis of terms in use. At the same time, the theoretical perspective is presented in conjunction with a series of practical foundations and a specific methodological proposal for the elaboration of specialised active dictionaries. The kind of results to be obtained have been illustrated in the present study with a sample, real lexicographical entry, always developed on the basis of prospective users and specific communicative needs.

Keywords : specialised lexicography; specialised languages; terminology; Communicative Theory of Terminology; corpus; active dictionary.

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