Phraseme Analysis and Concept Analysis: Exploring a Symbiotic Relationship in the Specialized Lexicon

Abstract

This paper analyzes ways in which phraseme analysis can facilitate concept analysis, and vice versa, in terminography work. We compare the phraseology of a number of conceptually related terms with conceptual information in our terminological knowledge base on optical storage technologies. We propose that a better understanding of phrasemeconcept relations is important for both knowledge- and corpus-based approaches to terminography, approaches which we believe will merge in the next generation of term banks.