Interpreting and treatment of certain terms in English language

• Author: Fatmir Vrapi
• Position: Polytechnic University of Tirana
• Pages: 24-32

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Vol. 6 No.2

September, 2020

Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-759X

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

Interpreting and treatment of certain terms in English language

Assoc. Prof. Fatmir Vrapi

Polytechnic University of Tirana

Abstract

Terms make up an essential part of technical writings and literature. They appear in various

forms, texts and uses through their clarity and accuracy. In using the correct terms, we should

abide by certain grammatical rules, which if not carefully tackled and strictly followed could

lead to wrong targeted English terms and messages.

In that case, reference should be made to grammar intrinsic rules and reviews, and language

specifi c behaviour to terms within various areas of knowledge and variants of British-American

English usage preferences on terms. Experience and expertise, terminological dictionaries,

and fi eld specialists together with ESP teachers, could become great tools and useful assistants

into term acquisition and mastery. Then, it is up to smart students and scholars to make use

of their own skills and capacities towards terms-interpretation and treatment, down to term-

formation and equivalence.

Keywords: interpretation, rule, skills, specifi c, terms.

Introduction

When tackling with terms, one should be meticulously careful, not only with the

whole range of uses and application, but also with the intricate spectrum of areas in

the fi elds of knowledge and disciplines of science; there are cases when seemingly

identical terms, could be used in di erent fi elds of knowledge, but at times you might

encounter di erent terms being used in the domains of the same discipline of science.

In view of this, terms behave di erently under di erent circumstances, in a sense, they

are contextually bound by certain prerogative limits within certain morphological

and syntactic rules. With reference to the above, a term could be defi ned as a word

with a specifi c meaning, within a specifi c fi eld of knowledge and expertise; hence,

technical terms constitute a substantial part of all technical and scientifi c texts and

writing.

Every fi eld of knowledge and specialty makes use of a special vocabulary denoting

specialized concepts by means of a technical language and speech. So, terms are

language units representing part of the lexicon and containing phonological,

morphological and syntactic features and information. They serve as vehicles of

communication and as cognitive units should denote concepts to be perceived by

human brain via grammar rules and communication.

Furthermore, terms have to be designated as a major tool of the terminology fi eld, or

conversely, no comprehension, communication, interpretation, translation and any

interaction would be made possible. Terms do also display a coordinating, correlative

function with common words and other parts of the sentence.

In fact, there is a general theory in terminology well-developed, a comprehensive work

by E.Wurster and followed by Picht, Bergenholtz, Heribert et al where terminology

work starts with a concept and then moves to the designated terms and the form of