Abstract:

Since the 1990s’ there were three shifts which have affected the discipline of terminology: the shift towards computational terminology management; the linguistic shift in the theory of terminology, and more recently the ontology shift. During the collaboration with ontology engineers within the framework of the European project FF POIROT, professor Rita Temmerman and her team introduce the method of termontography. Through the practice it proved that it can provide some benefits for the nowadays multilingual and multicultural terminological management. This article introduces this terminological methodology in order to give some new inspirations for readers in the terminology field of China.

Key words: the linguistic shift for terminology discipline, the ontology shift, termontography, the middle-out approach, semantic web, the European project FF POIROT