Abstract:

The purpose of the paper is to rethink the terminology concept from the perspective of terminology studies by examining the definitions of concept as well as the issues related to concept from the disciplines of philosophy and terminology. The research method is the reading of the relevant literature in philosophy plus the terminology concept analysis method to describe the meanings of the concept. After investigating into the concept definitions and the relevant issues in both philosophy and terminology, the paper concludes that concept research in terminology remains the core as well as the starting point of the contemporary diversified terminology theory and practice, and that concept research is determined by the nature and the contents of terminology discipline.

Key words: concept, concept in terminology, concept relations, concept system, concept analysis