Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

54the appropriate equivalent. This is because the relation between lenha and Holz is saidto be one of 1:1 (one lexical unit in one language corresponds to another one only inanother language), while the relation between Holz and its equivalents is one of 1:2 (onelexical unit in one language corresponds to two lexical units in a different language).We will refer further to this scenario of equivalence in section 2.2.3.Still regarding the anisomorphism problem, interlingual comparison is said to bemore favourable in the field of terminology (Arnzt 1993). This may be true if one thinksof scientific-technical fields because a tangible field of objects exists independently ofthe language concerned. For example, if we consider Wüster‘s English-Frenchdictionary, The Machine Tool (1968), we will find that the vast majority of entries areorganized as in Figure 7.Figure 7. Example of an entry in Wüster‘s English-French dictionary, The Machine Tool (1968)The number on the upper left side refers to the concept that is related with theprevious and following numbered concepts. Below number 1015 is the English termstripper with a definition in English and below this are the French equivalentsarracheur and extracteur accompanied by a definition in French. Definitions are written