Néologie du terrorisme : médiatisation et intégration

This article presents the results of a method of semi-automatic extraction of new terms in French in the field of terrorism. Two specialized subcorpora were constituted and these were compared to a newspaper corpus. The possibilities of extracting emerging terminology in this field were explored in the wake of the September 11 2001 attack. A term extractor identified potential neologisms and these were studied in both specialised and newspaper sources with regard to their integration. To do this, particular attention was paid to the dates at which these potential neologisms appeared, how their frequency varied and how they were taken up in reference works. This technique also gave some insights into the degree of specialization of the terminology of the field.