Catching the Butterfly in Flight. A bilingual Database of Terminology in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Words are commonly referred to as the building blocks of language, but observing words' behaviour, butterfly seems to be a better metaphor. This also applies to words or terms that make up the terminological apparatus of some fields of study, especially within the human and social sciences. In relation to translation of academic texts, an ordinary, bilingual dictionary with an alphabetical listing of terms does not capture the butterfly-like behaviour of terms. Creating a parallel, bilingual database of translated, academic texts is an attempt to capture the apparent wavering of terms.