%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:9224776 %A Béjoint, Henri %D 1988 %J International Journal of Lexicography %K ijl, lexicography %N 4 %P 354--368 %R 10.1093/ijl/1.4.354 %T Scientific and Technical Words in General Dictionaries %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijl/1.4.354 %V 1 %X Once the nomenclatures of general dictionaries have reached a certain dimension, all the 'new' words that are added to them are specialized, and most of those are scientific and technical. Then lexicographers come up against difficulties of a different nature altogether, even though the limit between the various kinds of words is not precise: the problems of polysemy, of sense division, of syntax and of co-occurrence, associated with the more common words, become less and less acute. But the selection of words becomes more difficult, and the definition of specialized words requires the help of specialists of each domain. Thus, scientific and technical words constitute a 'threat' to the homogeneity of the macrostructure and of the microstructure of general dictionaries.

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