Terminology is an interdisciplinary science that is based on a specific set of knowledge conceptualized in other disciplines (linguistics, knowledge science, information science, and communication science). Likewise, it is a transdisciplinary science because the terminological products are the pieces of linguistic representation on which any field of scientific knowledge must rely to acquire, generate and transfer the specific knowledge of any domain.
Terminology also designates the study and description of specialized words, an activity that has become, since the early 1970s, a new field of language sciences, in contrast to lexicology and that moves away from the method used by lexicologists. In this way, to recapitulate and redefine all the meanings and meanings that the terminology presents, we can choose to explain it as: interdisciplinary field of study that is based on a specific set of knowledge conceptualized in other disciplines (linguistics, science of knowledge, science of information). and communication sciences).
The word terminology is also used with reference to collecting, describing, and presenting terms in a systematic way (also called terminology) such as the vocabulary of a particular specialty field.
When studying the different dimensions of the economy we are forced to do a double task: to know the procedures, laws and theories and, at the same time, to use the specific vocabulary. To facilitate this task, basic economics vocabulary books are published. In them, each concept has its own meaning. With some frequency, a nonspecialized word acquires a concrete meaning in economics.
This is what happens with the word credit, which can be used as a non-economic term (your word has no credit) or as something exclusive to economic activity.
Thus, the job of a terminologist is to identify the standard term that corresponds to each notion and to assign the observed variants through a specific system. Do not confuse the work carried out by a terminologist and that of a lexicologist, which is based on describing all the senses of a word according to the contexts in which it may appear and according to the different uses that are made in the different subgroups of speakers of the same language.
