The Difference Between a Term and a Word: A Linguistic Perspective
Keywords:
Word, term, transation, translation, lexicography, terminology, context, expression, collocation, style, thesauri.Abstract
Human language is a complex physiological activity influencing and influenced by a vast range of systems. Therefore, fixing a word for a specific meaning and attaching a cultural meaning to words becomes challenging. The main difference between word and term is a word or phrase with a specific, often technical, meaning within a particular context or field. Essentially, all terms are words, but not all words are terms.
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