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Specificities of The Terminology in Africa
Specificities of The Terminology in Africa
Specificities of The Terminology in Africa
INTRODUCTION:
According to M. Teresa Cabré in “Terminology: theory, methods and application”,
terminology is “a discipline concerned with the study and the compilation of specialised
terms”. That means: terminology deals with naming, classifying terms; establishing relations
between concepts and making differences between them. This definition of terminology as a
science implies that it has principles allowing its activities. By focussing the reflexions on
these principles, can we say that there is an African terminology or what are the specificities
of this science in Africa?
Seeing the specificities of the general terminology, we are going now to compare them with
what is effective in Africa in terms of terminology. That means, we are now going to look the
specificities of terminology in Africa.
To conclude the work that was about the specificities of terminology in Africa, we can
say that it is a science which is rising in (in the contrary to the European one).
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