Abstract:

Researching maritime archeology terminology is an interdisciplinary area which “marries” maritime archeology and linguistics studies. The construction of a maritime archeology terminology system plays an integral part in developing the discipline, improving the construction of “three systems” of the discipline, and gaining more freedom of speech in the international academia. With the corpus-driven approach, we demonstrate the feasibility and necessity of compiling Maritime Archeology Terminology Dictionary, from the aspects of rationale, general framework, as well as the technique required for terminology mining and management. With possibly large language datasets pertaining to maritime archeology, we hope the intended dictionary can help with describing, comparing, summarizing, categorizing, analyzing, and interpreting the concepts of maritime archeology via bibliometric analyses. Our results indicate that such a dictionary can also help break through the constraints of disciplinary barriers, addressing academic issues in common and building up a “disciplinary group”, an academic community of shared future, as well as a scientific, systematic and theorized maritime archeology system with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

Key words: maritime archeology terminology, terminology translation, dictionary compilation, terminology database