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while the advocates of the other are persuaded that it owes
theoretical assumptions to more consolidated disciplines. The
latter see terminology as practice, or the process of compiling,
describing, processing and presenting the terms of special subject
fields with the aim of optimizing communication among
specialists and professionals concerned with the standardization of
language.

1. 5 Terminology and Linguistics
In the past terminology and linguistics have mostly ignored
each other. In its initial phase terminology was interested in
asserting its independence from other knowledge areas, and

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