02:54 Jan 11, 2011
To close attention of some youngters in the Business of Translation:
The term terminology is itself used in several different respects. The most frequent use nowadays is that terminology is the ``vocabulary of a special subject field''(Sager, 1990). This is also shown by the definition of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), who define terminology as the ``set of terms representing the system of concepts of a particular subject field''(ISO 1087:1990, 1990) A second possible definition is that terminology is ``a theory, i.e. the set of premises, arguments and conclusions required for explaining the relationships between concepts and terms.''(Sager, 1990). In this sense terminology is the scientific discipline dealing with the terminology in the first sense. ISO defines this as Terminology Science , which is ``the scientific study of the concepts and terms found in special languages''(ISO 1087:1990, 1990).
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