Specialised lexicography and terminology

The students should
• be able to analyse scientific texts regarding the topics, to formulate technical questions and find solutions to these problems during discussions
• improve communicating skills by presenting the results of the technical analyses to the other participants in an intelligible way
• improve communication with the fellow students
• practice leading a seminar discussion and answering questions regarding the topic
• use standard market terminology tools and to model data bases for creating complete terminology entries

1. Lexicography, Lexicography for special purposes
2. Dictionaries for special purposes, encyclopaedias
3. Science of terminology
4. Terminography, terminology databases
5. Organizations for norming, work organization
6. Ways and methods: corpus-based work, the science of definitions, the formation of terminology
7. Comparison criteria for dictionaries for special purposes and terminologies
8. Corpora, exchange formats, extracting term candidates, texts, tools, goals, applications
9. Project examples

Hoffmann, Lothar/ Kalverkämper, Hartwig/ Wiegand, Herbert Ernst (ed.): Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Fachsprachenforschung und Terminologiewissenschaft (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Bd. 14.1). Berlin/New York 1998.
Hoffmann, Lothar/ Kalverkämper, Hartwig/ Wiegand, Herbert Ernst (ed.): Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Fachsprachenforschung und Terminologiewissenschaft (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Bd. 14.2). Berlin/New York 1999.
Roelcke, Thorsten: Fachsprachen. 3., neu bearb. Aufl. Berlin 2010.
Schierholz, Stefan J. (2003): Fachlexikographie und Terminographie. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 39: 5-28.
Wright, Sue Ellen/ Budin, Gerhard (ed.): Handbook of Terminology Management. Bd. 1: Basic Aspects of Terminology Management. Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1997.
Wright, Sue Ellen/ Budin, Gerhard (ed.): Handbook of Terminology Management. Bd. 2: Applications-oriented Terminology Management. Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2001.

An extensive list of relevant literature will be sent to the participants shortly before the seminar.

Knowledge and contents: Con02, Con04, Con07

Skills or abilities: H/D01, H/D02, H/D03, H/D09

Competencies: Comp05, Comp06, Comp09

Block seminar (date and duration to be announced)

1. Termin:
The teachers choose one of the following:
a) 90-minute final exam on the contents of the seminar
or
b) presentation in class plus a brief paper (10-15 pages)
or
c) longer paper (15-20 pages)



2. Termin: The assessment on the second opportunity will be based on the same criteria.

For students who are offically exempt from attending: final exam (100%).

Academic misconduct (cheating, plagiarism in exercises or tests) will be penalized according to the University regulations on student assessment (“Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”).

Attendance: max. 35 h.

Requirements for participation:Students must obtain 25 ECTS in the first semester
Elective module in the second semester.
Language of teaching: German und/or English