Le traitement de la terminologie pharmaceutique dans la version numérisée du Dictionnaire de l’Académie française

Abstract

Treatment of pharmaceutical terminology in the digitized version of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française. This article aims to examine the treatment of pharmaceutical terms in the digitized version of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française on the example of pharmacy terminology. After a brief presentation of the dictionary microstructure and its current edition, the authors describe the terms marked as belonging to the field of pharmacy, presenting the reasons of these changes, the appearance and disappearance of the terms, the migration of terms between several fields, the passage of words from the common language into terminology and vice versa. The article also shows certain inconsistencies in the treatment of terminology in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française.

Keywords

• Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
• French language
• terminology
• lexicology
• lexicography
• pharmacy