Terminology - 1st semester
Code
711131066
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Rute Vilhena Costa
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. To acquire specific theoretical principles and methodologies in Terminology;
2. To understand the functioning of specialized language (Languages for Specific Purposes - LSP);
3. To be able to identify terms, collocations and phraseologies;
4. To apply methods to organize textual data;
5. To acquire technics to search terminological information;
6 To develop and manage terminology databases.
Prerequisites
non applicable
Subject matter
Teaching methodologies: In class the students will learn to use specific software in order to work with electronic corpus and in order to extract terminological data.
Evaluation:
Practical exercises in class and the production of an individual paper (40%);
Final test that covers the theoretical aspects of the CU (60%).
Bibliography
Bassey, Edem Antia. 2007. Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Cabré, Maria Teresa. 2003. Theories of Terminology: their description, prescription and explanation. Terminology 9 (2). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Costa Rute. 2013. Terminology and Specialised Lexicography: two complementary domains. Lexicographica. V. 29, Issue 1. International Annual of Lexicography. Ed. by Gouws/ Hjalmar / Heid/ Scheirholz/ Schweickard/ Wiegand. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, pp. 29 42
ISO 704: 2009. Terminology work - Principles and methods. International Organization for Standardization.
Petit, Gérard. 2009. La dénomination: approches lexicologique et terminologique. Louvain-Paris : Éditions Peeters
Rey, Alain. 1979. La Terminologie. Noms et Notions. Paris, PUF.
Sager, Juan. 1990. A Practical Course in Terminology Processing. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Teaching method
Teaching methodologies: In class the students will learn to use specific software in order to work with electronic corpus and in order to extract terminological data.
Evaluation method
Evaluation:
Practical exercises in class and the production of an individual paper (40%);
Final test that covers the theoretical aspects of the CU (60%).