Download or read book Terms in Context written by Jennifer Pearson and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction.- Identifying differences between words & terms.- Corpora, corpus design and corpus selection.- Dictionaries and defining strategies.- Analysis of definitions in text.- Defining as a performative act.- Retrieval of terms from the corpora.- Retrieval of formal and semi-formal defining expositives. - Synonymy, substitution and paraphrasing.- Using the term as the node.- Summary.