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Proměny lékařské terminologie v jednojazyčných výkladových slovnících
Changes in medical terminology in monolingual dictionaries

Author(s): Hana Mžourková, Jana Nová, Helena Pernicová
Subject(s): Lexis, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: lexicography;terminology;medicine;monolingual dictionary;Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech

Summary/Abstract: The considerable development of medical science during the last century, as well as growing public interest in health issues, are reflected in lexicography. In Czech monolingual dictionaries, the amount of headwords from medicine and related fields is steadily increasing. The Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech (ASSČ) brings a new approach to terminology (e.g. corpus-based selection of headwords, autonomization of headwords, unification of the explanation of meanings, exemplification of all one-word units). The ways of explaining the meanings of the names of diseases, types of medical treatment and the names of people suffering from a disease in the ASSČ are also presented.

  • Issue Year: 100/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 215-224
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Czech