703432 - Documentation & Terminology
Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

703351

Co-requisite

_

Distribution

3+0

The course draws upon insights from Documentary Linguistics to highlight the manner in which terminology and documentation are used to identify the conceptual and functional vocabulary used by specialist languages. The course introduces students to the idea of keeping records of language practices, methods for collecting, collating and recording information, and the functional purposes of documentary linguistics.