Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley, Aurélie Picton, Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation

Abstract

The aim of this volume is to bring together recent work by leading researchers on variation in terminology. As the editors explain in their introduction, in the early days of terminology studies (i.e. from the mid-twentieth century until the 1980s), variation was believed to be threatening for clear reasoning and unambiguous communication. Therefore, many terminologists were convinced that they needed to try and do away with variation in the – often multilingual – resources on technical subje...