Terminology | International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication

Editors
ORCiD logo with linkKyo Kageura | University of Tokyo, Japan
ORCiD logo with linkRita Temmerman | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Terminology is an independent journal with a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary scope. It focuses on the discussion of (systematic) solutions not only of language problems encountered in translation, but also, for example, of (monolingual) problems of ambiguity, reference and developments in multidisciplinary communication. Particular attention will be given to new and developing subject areas such as knowledge representation and transfer, information technology tools, expert systems and terminological databases. Terminology encompasses terminology both in general (theory and practice) and in specialized fields (LSP), such as physics; biomedical sciences; technology; engineering; humanities; management; law; arts; business administration; trade; corporate identity; economics; methodology; and any other area in which terminology is essential to improve communication.

Terminology publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 0929-9971 | E-ISSN: 1569‑9994
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https://doi.org/10.1075/term
Latest articles

23 March 2026

  • Consistency beyond terms: Translating terminological chains
    Rossella Resi
  • 9 March 2026

  • Gender-sensitive language in terminological definitions: A case study on Italian legal concepts
    Elena ChiocchettiNatascia Ralli
  • Domain properties and the representation of terminological relations
    Pius ten Hacken
  • Terms as linguistic and domain specific units: A translation perspective
    Maria Koliopoulou
  • Meaning distinctions in terminology research: A lexicon-driven approach applied to Brazilian Portuguese
    Flávia Lamberti
  • Terminology beyond terms
    Pius ten HackenRossella Resi
  • 4 March 2026

  • Rossella ResiFrieda Steurs (eds). 2025. Terminology planning in Europe
    Reviewed by Margaret Rogers
  • 26 February 2026

  • Evaluating the extraction of Italian institutional terminology: A comparative study between Sketch Engine and ChatGPT-4o
    Helena Ortiz-Garduño
  • Multidimensional analysis of H&SS terminology translation: A case study
    Ying Xu
  • 20 January 2026

  • Wine words, cultural worlds: A systematic review of metaphor and language in global wine communication
    Allison Creed
  • Developing a ship-shore radio communication technical vocabulary list
    Wen ZhaoXiaoyan Wei
  • 1 December 2025

  • Representing multiword expressions in terminology resources: From a traditional to a construction-based approach
    Marie-Claude L’Homme
  • 27 November 2025

  • Kara WarburtonJohn Humbley (eds). 2025. Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
    Reviewed by Lynne Bowker
  • 14 October 2025

  • Discovering hyponymic knowledge patterns in English
    Antonio San MartínCatherine Trekker
  • 13 October 2025

  • Terminology in genetic-linguistic studies as a political issue: The case of the South Slavic dialectal continuum
    Igor Ivašković
  • Translation of medical terms from an ethical perspective: A case study of the Chinese translation of Alzheimer’s disease
    Aling Shi
  • 11 July 2025

  • Investigating Western social science terminology in China’s late Qing and early Republican Eras: A case study of Yan Fu’s translations
    Lichun Tao, Yanjun PanZixuan Wang
  • 23 May 2025

  • Designing a termbase in the context of European higher education: The Arqus Termbase
    Esther Castillo-PérezSilvia Montero-Martínez | TERM 31:1 (2025) pp. 136–170
  • LlamATE: Automated terminology extraction using large‑scale generative language models
    Hanh Thi-Hong Tran, Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo, Antoine DoucetSenja Pollak | TERM 31:1 (2025) p. 5
  • When LMF and TMF meet: Towards a Unified Markup Framework (UMF)
    Federica Vezzani, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Ana SalgadoRute Costa | TERM 31:1 (2025) p. 72
  • AI as a resource for the clarification of medical terminology: An analysis of its advantages and limitations
    Laia Vidal SabanésIria da Cunha | TERM 31:1 (2025) pp. 37–71
  • Impact of automatic term extraction on terminology work: A qualitative interview study in institutional settings
    Tanja Wissik | TERM 31:1 (2025) pp. 110–135
  • Introduction to the special issue on Computational Terminology
    Ayla Rigouts TerrynPatrick Drouin | TERM 31:1 (2025) pp. 1–4
  • 18 February 2025

  • Pamela FaberMarie-Claude L’Homme (Ed.). 2022. Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge
    Reviewed by Xiaofang WuRunze Liu | TERM 31:2 (2025) pp. 335–348
  • 14 February 2025

  • Pruning translation of logical and accidental polysemy in traditional Chinese medicine terminology
    Yuehui Hou | TERM 31:2 (2025) pp. 311–334
  • Terminology: Ancient Chinese way
    Xingfeng Liu
  • 10 February 2025

  • A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of taste terms: The case of English Sour and Chinese suan
    Ting Zhang, Hicham LahlouYasir Azam | TERM 31:2 (2025) pp. 267–310
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    Editorial info
    Editors
    ORCiD logo with linkKyo Kageura | University of Tokyo, Japan
    ORCiD logo with linkRita Temmerman | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    Editorial Board
    ORCiD logo with linkBassey E. Antia | University of the Western Cape, South Africa
    ORCiD logo with linkŁucja Biel | University of Warsaw, Poland
    ORCiD logo with linkLynne Bowker | Université Laval, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkMíriam Buendía Castro | University of Granada, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkMarc Van Campenhoudt | Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes, Belgium
    Yongjun Dai | Anhui University of Technology, China
    ORCiD logo with linkBéatrice Daille | Université de Nantes, France
    ORCiD logo with linkPatrick Drouin | Université de Montréal, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkIsabel Durán-Muñoz | Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkPascaline Dury | Université Lumière 2 Lyon, France
    ORCiD logo with linkJan Engberg | Aarhus University, Denmark
    ORCiD logo with linkRosa Estopà | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkPamela Faber | University of Granada, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkSabela Fernández-Silva | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
    ORCiD logo with linkJohn Humbley | Université Paris-Diderot, France
    Ernie Jiali Du | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
    Koen Kerremans | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    ORCiD logo with linkMarita Kristiansen | NHH, Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
    ORCiD logo with linkMarie-Claude L'Homme | University of Montreal, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkPilar León-Araúz | University of Granada, Spain
    ORCiD logo with linkElizabeth Marshman | University of Ottawa, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkMojca Pecman | Université de Paris, France
    ORCiD logo with linkKatia Peruzzo | University of Trieste, Italy
    ORCiD logo with linkAyla Rigouts Terryn | Université de Montréal & Mila, Canada
    ORCiD logo with linkMargaret Rogers | University of Surrey, UK
    Micaela Rossi | University of Genoa, Italy
    Young-Bin Song | Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea
    ORCiD logo with linkŠpela Vintar | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    ORCiD logo with linkKara Warburton | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
    Xiangqing Wei | Nanjing University, China
    Maria-Cornelia Wermuth | KU Leuven, Belgium
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    Call for Papers

    Call for Papers

    Call for Papers on Terminology and AI. Special Issue Terminology 33:1 (2027)

    Call for Papers on The Art of Defining: Innovations and Challenges in crafting Terminological and Lexicographic Definitions. Special Issue Terminology 34:1 (2028)

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