Tentativeness in term formation: A study of neology as a rhetorical device in scientific papers

Terminology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-58

  Pecman, Mojca ^a  

^a Atelier de Recherche sur la Parole   (France)

Author keywords

Corpus study; Discourse analysis; Given new information theory; Neology; Rhetorical analysis; Scientific discourse; Terminological variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862125130     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.18.1.03pec     Document Type: Article

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