The Quantitative Analysis of the Dynamics and Structure of Terminologies
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2012
XIX, 243 pages
978-90-272-7246-1 (ISBN)
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The dynamics and systematicity of terminology: this book addresses these essential and intriguing aspects of terminology, by using quantitative methodologies which have been underutilized in the field to date. Through the analysis of the Japanese terminologies of six domains and with special reference to the dynamic behaviour and the status of borrowed and native morphemes, the book reveals: (a) how borrowed and native morphemes contribute to the construction of these terminologies, and how these contributions are likely to change as the terminologies grow; (b) how borrowed and native morphemes contribute to the systematicity or systematic representation of conceptual systems; and (c) how borrowed and native morphemes are related to each other and to what extent they are mixed in constructing terminologies. It also examines the epistemological implications of applying these quantitative methodologies, which leads back to such essential questions as the relationship between terminology as a whole and individual terms and what we understand terms to be when we talk about the growth of terminologies. The book should be of interest to a wide audience, including theoretical terminologists, terminographers, quantitative linguists, computational linguists, lexicologists and lexicographers.
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Content
- The Quantitative Analysis of the Dynamicsand Structure of Terminologies
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Terminology and lexicology
- Quantitative approach
- The context and the framework of the present study
- A note on typographical conventions
- Background
- The sphere of terminology
- 1.1. Lexicology: Its definition and status
- 1.1.1. The definition of lexicology
- 1.1.2. Vocabulary as a concrete object of language and lexicology
- 1.1.3. Vocabulary and utterances
- 1.2. Terminology: Its definition and status
- 1.2.1. What are terms?
- 1.2.2. Terminology and terms
- 1.3. Vocabulary and terminology
- 1.3.1. Vocabulary and terminology as a set
- 1.3.2. Characteristics of words and terms
- 1.4. Quantitative approaches to lexicology and terminology
- 1.4.1. Existing quantitative work on lexical items
- 1.4.2. The position, framework and structure of the book
- The nature of terminological data
- 2.1. Terminological data
- 2.1.1. The original dataset
- 2.1.2. Identification of morphemes
- 2.1.3. Data used in the analysis
- 2.2. Distributional characteristics of morphemes in terminologies
- 2.2.1. Frequency distributions of morphemes
- 2.2.2. Zipf's law and the distribution of morphemes
- 2.3. Term-length distributions
- 2.3.1. Basic nature of term-length distributions
- 2.3.2. Term lengths and types of origin of morphemes
- Distributional dynamics
- The mathematical framework and the status of data
- 3.1. The expectation of growth: A naive observation
- 3.2. The basic mathematical framework
- 3.2.1. The urn model
- 3.2.2. Binomial distribution
- 3.2.3. Frequency spectrum and expected number of types
- 3.3. The standard way of estimation and the status of terminological data
- 3.4. Amount of unseen items and discounting
- 3.4.1. An intuitive explanation
- 3.4.2. Good-Turing estimation
- 3.5. Data, samples and discounting for terminologies
- The dynamics of morphemes in terminologies
- 4.1. Developmental profiles
- 4.1.1. The sample size factor and the developmental profile
- 4.1.2. Binomial interpolation and extrapolation
- 4.2. Some preparations
- 4.2.1. Examining the randomness assumption
- 4.2.2. Re-introducing the level of terms
- 4.3. The dynamics of morphemes in the terminologies of the six domains
- 4.3.1. Points for observation
- 4.3.2. Cross-domain observations
- 4.3.3. Observations relating to types of origin
- 4.4. LNRE models
- 4.5. Re-examining the qualitative difference in types of origin
- Interpretative and epistemological examination
- 5.1. The status of the data
- 5.1.1. The data as the object of the study
- 5.1.2. The data as a sample of the object of the study
- 5.2. The dynamics of terminology: Structure and event
- 5.2.1. A core theory and surrounding factors
- 5.2.2. The developmental model and the evolution of terminology
- 5.3. Epistemological implications of interpolation and extrapolation
- 5.3.1. The ``potential'' data
- 5.3.2. Morphemes with lost identity revisited
- 5.3.3. What we have as and how we perceive the data
- Tropistic structure
- Terminological structure and network representations
- 6.1. Compounding, term formation and terminological structure
- 6.1.1. From term formation to the construction of terminologies
- 6.1.2. Terminology as a network of terms
- 6.1.3. The status of morphemes in the terminological structure
- 6.2. The tropistic nature of terminology
- 6.2.1. Arbitrariness and the degree of tropism
- 6.2.2. The tropistic nature of terminology
- 6.3. Terminological structure and ``tropistic networks''
- 6.3.1. Networks and tropism
- 6.3.2. Systematicity and tropism
- 6.3.3. Tropistic networks and types of origin
- 6.3.4. Networks, conceptual structure and tropism revisited
- 6.4. Formal aspects of tropistic networks
- 6.4.1. Basic notions concerning a graph/network
- 6.4.2. The basic nature of tropistic networks
- The tropistic nature of terminologies
- 7.1. The framework of observation
- 7.1.1. Aspects of tropistic networks
- 7.1.2. Descriptive indices of networks
- 7.2. The scope of tropism
- 7.2.1. Cross-domain observations
- 7.2.2. Observations from the point of view of types of origin
- 7.3. The tropistic nature of the largest components
- 7.3.1. The strength of tropism
- 7.3.2. Structural characteristics of tropistic networks
- 7.4. Summary observations of the tropistic nature of terminologies
- The status of morphemes in terminological structures
- 8.1. Methodological framework
- 8.1.1. The status of morphemes in putative terminologies
- 8.1.2. The morphological network
- 8.1.3. Morphological networks of the actual terminologies
- 8.2. Isolates and small components
- 8.3. The status of morphemes in the largest component
- 8.3.1. Points of observation and indices for the largest components
- 8.3.2. The status of borrowed and native morphemes
- 8.4. Summary observations
- Conclusions
- Quantitative approaches to terminology in perspective
- 9.1. An indicative summary of the present study
- 9.1.1. The theoretical framework
- 9.1.2. The choice of methodology
- 9.1.3. Descriptive results
- 9.1.4. The epistemological framework
- 9.2. Remaining issues and directions for further research
- 9.2.1. Some technico-theoretical issues
- 9.2.2. Structure and history
- 9.2.3. Towards integrated descriptions of structural growth
- 9.3. Implications for related studies
- 9.3.1. Descriptive studies of terminology and vocabulary
- 9.3.2. Possible contributions to applications
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index
