Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví (known as M. Teresa Cabré; born 1947) is a Catalan linguist. She is professor ''

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'' of

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and

Terminology Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science. A ''term'' is a word, Compound (linguistics), com ...

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(UPF). Since 2021, she has been president of the

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. Her areas of expertise are in

lexicology Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elemen ...

lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretical le ...

, terminology, and

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Biography

Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví was born in L'Argentera,

Baix Camp Baix Camp () is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca located in the region of Camp de Tarragona, in Catalonia.The capital is the city of Reus. Baix Camp is located on the coast, between Tarragonès to the northeast and Baix Ebre to the south. It als ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, Spain, 1947. She has a degree and doctorate in

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(1976). She was a professor at the

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from 1970 to 1971, and at the

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from 1971 to 1993. Since 1994, has been teaching Linguistics and Terminology at UPF. She was director of TERMCAT from 1982 to 1988. She has directed the University Institute of Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University and is the current director of the Center of Reference in Linguistic Engineering (CREL) of the Catalan Research Plan. She is a founding member of the Iberoamerican Terminology Network (Riterm), of the Iberoamerican Terminology Network (Riterm) (also chair of its steering committee), of the Pan-Latin Terminology Network (Realiter), and of the

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group of the European Linguistic Research Association. Since 2019, she has been an International Member of the China Language Policy and Standardization Center. She is also a member of the advisory board of AET, Termnet, Terminology, Sendebar, and MOTS. As head of the Institute of Catalan Studies, she has proposed the creation of a normative pan-Catalan dictionary.

Awards and honours

* 2007, Eugen Wüster International Terminology Award (

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) * 2008, Knight, ''

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'' * 2015,

Creu de Sant Jordi The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English language, English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Gold Medal of the G ...

* 2018, Doctor ''

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'',

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* Doctor ''

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Selected works

* ''Terminología y cognición'', 1980 * ''Lexicologia i semàntica'', 1985 * ''Els diccionaris catalans, de 1940 a 1988'', 1991 * ''La terminologie théorie, méthode et applications'', 1992 * ''Terminology : theory, methods, and applications'', 1998 * ''Terminología y modelos culturales'', 1999 * ''La terminología : representación y comunicación : elementos para una teoría de base comunicativa y otro artículos'', 1999 * ''Textos de terminólogos de la Escuela Rusa'', 2001 * ''La enseñanza de los lenguajes de especialidad : la simulación global'', 2006 * ''Mots nous en català : una panoràmica geolectal = New words in Catalan : a diatopic view'', 2014 * ''La Terminologia avui : termes, textos i aplicacions'', 2018

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