[Corpora-List] SPECIAL ISSUE OF TERMINOLOGY ON LEXICAL-SEMANTIC APPROACHES TO TERMINOLOGY

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Dear Sirs,

I would appreciate it if you could publish the call below on the Corpora distribution list.

Thank you very much,
José Manuel Ureña

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SPECIAL ISSUE OF TERMINOLOGY ON

Lexical-semantic Approaches to 
Terminology

Guest editors: Pamela Faber (University of 
Granada)

and

Marie-Claude L’Homme (University of 
Montreal)

Introduction

The importance of lexical 
semantics is increasing in terminology work.
This is in consonance with the 
fact that word and term meaning is now in
the spotlight, thanks to dictionary 
compilation, ontology modeling,
document indexing, and information retrieval. 
As such, lexical semantics
has become a convergence point for disciplines 
such as lexicography,
phraseology, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and 
knowledge
representation, all of which are crucial to Terminology.

In 
the initial years of Terminology, meaning, viewed as an inherent
property of 
specialized knowledge units, was not given its due
importance. In fact, terms 
were not even regarded as true language units
but rather as mere labels for 
concepts. Definitions in term entries were
a data field that was often filled 
by automatically including
definitions found in other 
resources.

However, the advent of corpus linguistics and corpus pattern 
analysis
has brought many questions to the forefront in Terminology, such as 
term
variation and polysemy, which were previously not envisaged 
in
specialized language. Other issues include the identification 
of
specialized meaning in running text, as well as the relations 
between
terms and other lexical units. As a result, terminologists now have 
to
deal with term meaning and how it is represented in texts.

In 
addition, new methods for compiling specialized dictionaries and 
for
representing knowledge require sophisticated models to account 
for
fine-grained semantic distinctions and rich sets of paradigmatic 
and
syntagmatic relations. Such methods should be based on a coherent set 
of
theoretical premises. In this sense, a number of 
meaning-based
linguistic frameworks can be or have been usefully applied or 
adapted to
Terminology. These include the following:

·      Cognitive 
Semantics (e.g. Talmy 2000)

·      Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology, 
ECL (Mel’čuk et al.
1984-1999; 1995)

·      Frame Semantics (Fillmore 
1982, 1985)

·      The Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995)

·     
 Lexical Grammar Model (Martín Mingorance 1998, Faber and 
Mairal
1999)

The editors invite submissions that present innovative 
research work or
articles addressing a central conceptual, theoretical, 
and/or empirical
investigation on lexical semantic approaches to Terminology 
and
Specialized Languages. Possible topics include but are not limited 
to
the following:

1.            Conceptual modeling and knowledge 
representation as
reflected in lexical structure

2.           
 Representation of specialized meaning (e.g. definitions,
argument structure, 
knowledge patterns)

3.            Paradigmatic and/or syntagmatic 
relations

4.            Applications of lexical-semantic frameworks to 
the
analysis and management of terminological data

5.           
 Extraction of semantic data from specialized corpora

6.           
 Terminology knowledge bases that include or are based on
lexical semantic 
frameworks

7.            Lexical modeling for ontologies

8.       
     Terminological metaphor

Submissions

Papers should be written 
with Word and comprise between 20-30 pages
(max. 9,000 words). More 
information on formatting requirements can be
found on the John Benjamins 
website
(http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/term). English is 
preferred (80%
of the contents), but submissions in French, Spanish or German 
will be
considered. Each issue of Terminology contains up to six or 
seven
articles.

Please send submissions to Pamela Faber (pfaber at ugr.es).

Scientific 
Committee

Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 
Spain)

Pierrette Bouillon (École de traduction et d’interprétation, 
Université
de Genève, Switzerland)

Beatrice Daille (Université de 
Nantes, France)

Kyoko Kanzaki (Toyohashi University of Technology, 
Japan)

Pilar León-Arauz (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

Patrick 
Leroyer (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Ricardo Mairal (UNED, 
Madrid)

François Maniez (Université de Lyon, France)

Elizabeth 
Marshman (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Alain Polguère (Université de 
Lorraine & RELIEF ATILF CRNS, France)

Margaret Rogers (University of 
Surrey, UK)

Zuoyan Song (Beijing Normal University, China)
Carlos 
Subirats (Universidad de Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Rita Temmerman 
(Erasmushogeschool, Belgium)

Gerd Wotjak (University of Leipzig, 
Germany)

Important dates

Submission date for full paper: 
January 31, 2014

Acceptance/Rejection notice: March 31, 2014

Final 
papers due: April 30, 2014

The special issue is scheduled to appear at 
the end of 2014.

References

Faber, P. and Mairal R. 
(1999). Constructing a Lexicon of English
Verbs.  Berlin: Mouton de 
Gruyter

Fillmore, C. J. (1982) Frame Semantics. In The Linguistic Society 
of
Korea (ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm, 111-137. Seoul: 
Hanshin.

Fillmore C. J. (1985). Frames and the Semantics of 
Understanding.
Quadernidi Semantica 6: 222–253.

Martín Mingorance, 
L.(1998) El modelo lexemático funcional. Amalia
Marín Rubiales (ed.). Granada 
: Universidad de Granada

Mel’čuk et al., I. (1984-1999). Dictionnaire 
explicatif et combinatoire
du français contemporain. Montréal: Presses de 
l’Université de Montréal.

Mel’čuk, I., A. Clas and A. Polguère (1995) 
Introduction à la
lexicologie explicative et combinatoire. Louvain-la-Neuve 
(Belgique):
Duculot / Aupelf – UREF.

Pustejovsky, J. (1995). The 
Generative Lexicon. Cambridge, MA : MIT
Press.

Talmy, L  (2000). 
Towards a Cognitive Semantics, Vols. 1 and 2.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,

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