IN SEARCH OF EQUIVALENCY: THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF TERMINOLOGISTS IN ENHANCING TRANSLATION PRECISION

web of ideas.It delves into the realm of concepts, exploring their definitions and the names that adorn them.In embarking upon a discussion about this intriguing subject, it is only fitting to unveil its essence with an artful and precise formal definition.Sager (Sager 1990) also points out that terminology represents the science, study or knowledge of terms.This means that basically terminology defines any work that deals with the labeling and designation of concepts.Sager also states that "terminology is the study of and the field of activity concerned with the collection, description, processing and presentation of terms, i.e., lexical items belonging to specialized areas of usage of one or more languages."Terminology isn't confined solely to the act of assigning names to concepts; it extends beyond that, encompassing a range of responsibilities including the creation of terms, their careful selection, elaborate descriptions, and their dissemination across various printed and digital platforms.Sager elaborates further, asserting that terminology evolved from a pursuit marked by amateurism in the 1930s into a rigorously scientific discipline interwoven with other fields such as linguistics, semantics, ontology, and information science.Additionally, terminology is significantly shaped by the subject domains and the specific realms of activity it serves, leading to its characterization as an interdisciplinary endeavor rather than a standalone field of study.Darir ( 2016) defines terminology by saying: "So terminology in this sense simply means the set of (scientific or technical) terms belonging to a particular subject field be it a science (such as chemistry, linguistics, and physics), art (such as painting), doctrine (such as Marxism), or craft (such as medicine, air-traffic and agriculture).In the second (and more technical) meaning, terminology refers to the science that investigates the relationship between concepts and terms and manages the production, standardization, documentation and dissemination of terms in particular disciplines or in technical and scientific writings in general."Terminology then is simply that discipline that examines the relationship between scientific principles and words that describe them in specific languages.