Abstract:

Compared to natural language resources, terminology resources are specialized language resources that have been processed professionally. If we consider this processing as a naming and standardization process, then, turning terminology resources into products is the second processing. Based on exploring the logical starting point and internal mechanism of the terminology resources’ secondary processing, we think terminology products can be divided into non-profit public goods and for-profit language goods. Developing terminology resources is an inevitable requirement for achieving the overall benignization, high-quality, and sustainable development of terminology services. On this basis, the development strategy of terminology products is discussed from the perspective of Language industry, such as language products, language demand, language product consumption and supply.

Key words: language industry, terminology resources, terminology product, commercialization