A Contrastive Study of the Naming Views between Prescriptive Terminology and Descriptive Terminology

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-8578.2021.01.002

Abstract

Abstract:

Terminology is about naming, managing, translating, and teaching the terms in a specialized field, and what follows is about the construction of terminology bank. Due to the cognitive shift, modern terminology witnesses the departure between prescriptive theory and descriptive theory. By contrasting the two theories, we found that there lies the gap of naming ideas involved, such as univocity or multidimensionality when it comes to designation, clarity or metonymicness to motivation, and consistency or variability to performance. We think that the two naming views supplement each other in terminological practice although endowed with different emphasis in theory.

Key words: prescriptive terminology, descriptive terminology, the naming view

CLC Number: (术语学)

XU Jianguo. A Contrastive Study of the Naming Views between Prescriptive Terminology and Descriptive Terminology[J]. China Terminology, 2021, 23(1): 10-16.

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假设名称	适用对象	输出对语言学习的作用	表达能力的地位	输入作用
输出驱动假设	中高级学习者	输出比输入对语言学习的内驱力更大	把表达能力作为教学目标更符合学生的就业需要、允许学生自主选择部分表达能力作为培养目标	无
输出驱动- 输入促成假设	同上	同上	同上	输入促成完成当下产出任务、输入直接为产出任务提供语言材料和相关知识

假设名称	适用对象	输出对语言学习的作用	表达能力的地位	输入作用
输出驱动假设	中高级学习者	输出比输入对语言学习的内驱力更大	把表达能力作为教学目标更符合学生的就业需要、允许学生自主选择部分表达能力作为培养目标	无
输出驱动- 输入促成假设	同上	同上	同上	输入促成完成当下产出任务、输入直接为产出任务提供语言材料和相关知识