Terminology, a linguistic approach

What do Denis Diderot (1713-1784), Joseph-Évariste Prince (1851-1925), Austrian engineer Eugen Wüster (1898-1977), semanticist John Lyons (1932-2020) and Robert Dubuc (1930-2019) have in common? Each in his own way, they laid the foundations of a new discipline. Diderot, through vocabulary, rehabilitated the arts and crafts. Prince, through his work on railroads, gave the discipline its initial flick of the wrist. Wüster is credited with inventing the science of terminology. Without Robert Dubuc, this science would have remained a European singularity. Inspired by his dual training as a grammarian and translator, Robert Dubuc founded terminology, placing it at the service of a society eager to work, create and live in a French language free from the influence of English. John Lyons is the father of structural semantics. The terminological approach outlined in this book is largely inspired by that of Robert Dubuc, an approach that has been criticized for lacking a clear theoretical foundation. The book refocuses on structuralist lexical semantics, which provides both the conceptual apparatus and the methodological tools for a better description of terms and their meanings.