With this large volume prefaced by Rita Termmerman, John Humbley presents, in 12 chapters and almost 500 pages, an encyclopaedic sum of his work, carried out over more than twenty-five years, presented very precisely by the publisher as the ‘first historical, geographical and methodological synthesis, both empirical and theoretical, of terminological creation’ (4th cover). Emeritus professor at Sorbonne Paris University, specialist in terminology, neology and translation...