Réflexion sur la lexicographie et la terminologie
Reflections on lexicography and terminology

Summary/Abstract: Lexicography and terminology are two disciplines that use the same techniques: using the corpus to obtain information on words and terms, applying corpus data analysis techniques, extracting terms, searching for contexts, studying linguistic units. The two disciplines are distinguished by the central object they deal with: the word and the term. Both disciplines are turning to new descriptive models, such as lexicology and lexical semantics. These changes can be distinguished in terms of term analysis methods and lexical units. Through the corpus, both disciplines can observe the behavior of units: lexicography looks for important and representative organisms for a language, while terminology looks for representative organisms in specialized fields and describes terms. In general, the corpora of both disciplines consist of written texts, not oral transcriptions. Lexicography and terminology require an electronic medium to analyze words and terms. In both disciplines, the corpus plays an important role, with the emphasis on frequency, observation of authentic usage and correction of dictionary errors.

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