Abstract:

The status of Terminology vs. Specialised Lexicography has been disputed for a long time among different communities in terminological or lexicographical work. Due to the fact that there are varied communities which make their respective epistemological assumptions about the status of term and its role, these existing of disputations are manifold. Mrs. Prof. Rute Costa did not argue the relationship between the above-mentioned domains from the dichotomy, but from a continuum relationship and considered that the both domains are connected although at different degrees. She based her idea on the two dimensions of Terminology-the linguistic and the conceptual. This paper is a Chinese version to introduce this idea created by Mrs. Prof. Costa.

Key words: Terminology, Speicalised Lexicography, two dimensions of Terminology, symbiotic relationship, continuum