Termcat: providing terminology services for the Catalan autonomous region

Résumé (en anglais)

The public centre for the Catalan terminology (www.termcat.cat) has the mission of ensuring the development and integration of Catalan terminology into both specialist sectors and society in general through the constant creation of innovative, quality tools and resources in permanent dialogue with experts and users. TERMCAT's activities take place within the framework of the process of standardising the Catalan language and in a global context determined by the knowledge society, diversity and multilingualism. Our approach to Catalan language planning adopted is based on a cooperative model that revolves around social participation and involvement and is aimed at ensuring the sustainable co-existence of Catalan with the other languages used in Catalonia. In pursuing these goals over the last 25 years, TERMCAT has forged its own style, one that includes both idiosyncratic characteristics and elements that could be exported to other linguistic communities.