LEKA Lexical Knowledge Achieve Terminology in Social Sciences

• Main Authors: Noria, Tugang, Bromeley, Philip, Amee, Joan
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: UNIMAS Publisher, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2020
• Subjects: NX Arts in general; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32951/1/LEKA%20Lexical%20Knowledge%20Achieve%20Terminology%205pgs.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32951/; https://onlineshop.unimas.my/unimaspublisher/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=211&search=lexical
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The LEKA (Lexical Knowledge Archive) Project involves language modernization and modification through word formation/coinage, word blending and word borrowing which focuses on developing specialised terminology for Social sciences and Humanities in the Iban language. This may look like an ordinary wordlist, a form of bilingual archive of specialised terminology in Social Sciences and Humanities, but for the authors this is our labour of love. Years of research is finally manifested into a publication with hopes to further modernize the Iban language to elevate its function into becoming an academic language. Leka in Iban literally means a seed of fruits or vegetables or a seed of word, hence the term LEKA aptly represents this initiative.