Abstract:

There is often a mutually evolving relationship between the subject sememes and common sememes of terminology. The article systematically sorts and analyzes the relationship between the subject sememes and common sememes of terminology entries that have both subject sememes and common sememes. Terminology named with newly created words generally derive common sememes from subject sememes, while terminology named with ready-made words generally derive subject sememes from common sememes. On this basis, taking the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary as an example, this article discusses the way to deal with such terminology entries in the general-purpose modern Chinese dictionaries: the way of the former to deal with terminology entries that have both subject sememes and common sememes in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary is to first interpret the subject sememe, followed by the common sememe. The way of the latter is to first interpret the common sememe, followed by the subject sememe. By sorting and analyzing the subject sememes and common sememes of terminology, we can deepen our understanding of terminology and its semantic evolution, enrich terminology theory, and also contribute to the standardization of terminology.

Key words: terminology, subject sememe, common sememe, the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary