Termcat: providing terminology services for the Catalan autonomous region
Termcat: providing terminology services for the Catalan autonomous region

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Summary/Abstract: The public centre for the Catalan terminology (www.termcat.cat) has the missionof ensuring the development and integration of Catalan terminology into both specialistsectors and society in general through the constant creation of innovative, quality tools andresources in permanent dialogue with experts and users.TERMCAT’s activities take place within the framework of the process ofstandardising the Catalan language and in a global context determined by the knowledgesociety, diversity and multilingualism.Our approach to Catalan language planning adopted is based on a cooperativemodel that revolves around social participation and involvement and is aimed at ensuringthe sustainable co-existence of Catalan with the other languages used in Catalonia. Inpursuing these goals over the last 25 years, TERMCAT has forged its own style, one thatincludes both idiosyncratic characteristics and elements that could be exported to otherlinguistic communities.

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