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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Humbley, John

Titel

Vers une réception plurielle de la théorie terminologique de Wüster : une lecture commentée des avant-propos successifs du manuel "Einführung in die allgemeine Terminologielehre"

Ist Teil von

• Langages (Paris), 2007-12 (168), p.82-91

Ort / Verlag

LAROUSSE

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Quelle

Armand-Colin journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Eugen Wüster's posthumous handbook of terminology has had three separate editions in the original German, and each has its own preface, written by various authorities involved in the field. Analysis of these prefaces shows an unmistakable progression. The first simply recounts how the handbook was completed following the author's death. The second presents the handbook as a response to those who criticize Wüster's theoretical stance. The third places the work in the bigger picture of the history of linguistics and presents it as the inauguration of a new branch of linguistics applied to language for special purposes. These viewpoints, completed by contemporary German-language sources, shed light on the way Wüster's legacy is perceived in Central Europe and thereby put French-language criticisms into perspective.