Terminologie diachronique: méthodologies et études de cas

The course of study characterised by its diachronic perspective shows the richness of a perspective that anchors terminology in its diachrony, in the history of language and thought, in its evolutionary dimension as well, while confirming the need for knowledge and analysis of the disciplinary and cultural context. This perspective combines theses approaches and shows that everything is important for analyses of semantic complexity with the means offered by digital humanities. Discourse analysis, social or cultural history in lexical studies, lexical semantics, lexicometrics, socioterminology and specialized lexicography are the background of works that diachronic terminology renews, with the sharp analysis of cases concerning languages, corpora, and language histories. The conceptual and designative activities around the knowledge of the nature of terminological facts observed in a diachronic perspective - metaterminology - acquire an even more significant role, as terminological "realia" force us to verify their scope and effectiveness. Diachronic terminology makes it possible to study the evolution of forms and meanings in vocabularies and in specialized lexicography, as well as the evolution in relationships between concepts and terms, between terminology and neology, whether in the course of a given period of a specialized domain or sub-domain, in long or short diachrony. Articles by Jana Altmanova, Anne Condamines, Bruno Courbon, Pascaline Dury, Wael Farouq, Paolo Frassi, Julie Humbert-Droz, John Humbley, Aurélie Picton, Francesca Piselli, Anne-Delphine Rousseau et Maria Teresa Zanola.