This course familiarizes students with terminology as both a theoretical scientific field and a form of applied knowledge. More specifically, it explores the connection between terminology and terminography, as well as their relationship to specialized translation. The course examines the cognitive nature of terminology—as a key component of specialized domains—and its interdisciplinary character. Major theories of terminology are presented and compared, with a focus on the specific contribution of each. The course contrasts general language with specialized language, examines the process of naming in relation to concepts and extralinguistic referents, and investigates the relationships between concepts. It covers the extraction of one-word and multi-word terms from texts, while also exploring text corpora—with an emphasis on those from the European Union—and various terminological resources, specifically in the context of terminography and the creation of terminological resources. Furthermore, the course addresses terminological borrowing and neologisms, as well as cross-lingual terminological equivalence and its role in specialized translation.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

•    understand the objectives, methodology, key concepts, and applications of terminology and terminography,
•    distinguish the fundamental characteristics of various terminology theories and the differences between them,
•    identify the features of specialized discourse in terms of structure, vocabulary, and syntax,
•    understand the essential characteristics of a term, a conceptual field, and the interconnections between terms,
•    utilize and evaluate existing terminological resources, as well as create new ones.

Week 1: Definition of the fields of Terminology and Terminography, along with a brief historical overview.The role of terminology in specialized communication and its cognitive nature as a defining parameter of a specialized domain.

Week 2: Scientific, technical, and professional fields; the interdisciplinary nature of terminology; the relationship between terminology, linguistics, and information technology; the connection of terminology and terminography to specialized translation.

Week 3: Theories of terminology: Wüster’s General Theory of Terminology, socioterminology, textual terminology, the sociocognitive approach, and communication theory.A comparison and critical assessment of these theories.

Week 4: Specialized texts and the gradation of specialization; specialized language versus general language; sublanguages ​​and their characteristics; linguistic, textual, and functional features of specialized language compared to general language.

Week 5: The terminological unit: denomination, concept, extralinguistic reference, and the relationship between denomination and concept; the conceptual versus the lexico-semantic approach; the central role of the noun.

Week 6: Conceptual fields and relationships between concepts; hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy. Exercises with examples.

Week 7: Polysemy, synonymy, and homonymy in terminology, and how to manage them. Exercises with examples.

Week 8: Term extraction from texts; one-word and multi-word terms, specialized vocabulary and phraseology; the terminologist’s working methods and tools. Exercises with examples.

Week 9: Bilingual and multilingual corpora, terminological resources, databases; parallel and comparable texts, European parallel legal texts.

Week 10: Terminography in contrast to lexicography: monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual dictionaries; conceptual encoding through definitions.

Week 11: Terminological borrowing, creation of neologisms, candidate terms, and non-terms.

Week 12: Cross-lingual terminological equivalence and the harmonization of international terminology; standardization of new terms and standardization bodies.

Week 13: Recap of the key points, with an emphasis on the commonalities and differences between terminology and terminography.

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- Κατσογιάννου, Μ. & Ευθυμίου, Ε. (επιμ.) (2004). Ελληνική ορολογία: έρευνα και εφαρμογές. Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης.
- Κριμπάς, Π. Γ., Λουπάκη, Ε., Πανταζάρα, Μ., & Τζιάφα, Ε. (2023). Ζητήματα ορολογίας στη σύγχρονη μεταφραστική πρακτική: Διεπιστημονικές προσεγγίσεις [Προπτυχιακό εγχειρίδιο]. Κάλλιπος, Ανοικτές Ακαδημαϊκές Εκδόσεις.
http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-128 
- Παριανού, Α. (2023). Ειδική μετάφραση και διαπολιτισμική επικοινωνία [Προπτυχιακό εγχειρίδιο]. Κάλλιπος, Ανοικτές Ακαδημαϊκές Εκδόσεις.
Διαθέσιμο στο: http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-108
- Λουπάκη, Ε. (2024). Η διαχείριση ορολογίας στην επαγγελματική μετάφραση: Μια σύγχρονη εκπαιδευτική προσέγγιση. Αθήνα: Δίαυλος.
- Faini, P. (2014). Terminology Management and the Translator. From Project Planning to Database Creation. Trento: Tangram.

In class. This two-hour course takes the form of a lecture with a dialectic method but also with the help of PowerPoint and online material. At regular intervals, the students are given an exercise to consolidate their theoretical knowledge with selected examples from their working languages. Consolidation practice is considered a key part of the learning method. For the same reason, the compulsory work assigned to students as part of their assessment combines theoretical knowledge, personal research and experience of managing terminology in their working languages.

Use of ICT in Teaching.

Supporting the learning process via the open e-class electronic platform.

Student assessment takes place throughout the semester, based on their participation in the teaching process and their engagement with the assigned exercises.

Final assessment and grading are determined as follows:

- written examination: 70%

- submission of an individual assignment: 30%.