TERMINOLOGY, THE ROLE OF DOMAIN AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY Mariana Coancă 1 Elena Museanu 2 Abstract Terminology deals with the specialized communication, which is achieved in a certain scientific, technical and professional domain. Interdisciplinarity is considered another orientation specific to modern sciences, in which the terms of a specific science, could be found in another science or in many sciences. It becomes relevant when a specialist in a specific field of study, knows a few characteristics of the concepts he needs, in order to have a professional interaction with the users of the concepts. The role of the domain is highly important, if it is registered in dictionaries, we could establish the interdisciplinarity of various scientific domains. Keywords: terminology, interdisciplinarity, term, concept, semantics, interaction, domain Terminology The development of terminology is the direct effect of the science’s and technique’s evolving and the increasing need of communication between the communities of specialists that have different native languages (Cabré 1998:67-68). Therefore, terminology deals with the specialized communication, achieved in a scientific, technical, professional domain (Bidu-Vrănceanu 2007: 19). It is accepted, generally, that ’’terminologies are definitional systems, in which it is established an interdependence among concept, term, definition and domain, through which it is noticed the terms’ preference for monosemy and monoreferentiality”. Therefore, the specialist’s terminology is called ’’internal” terminology(T1), which is normative and it is strictly interpreted according to the aspects of the specialized communication and ’’external” (T2) terminology, which is descriptive and it has become interesting to the non specialists (id. 2007: 19). The purpose of this terminology is to ensure a clear, unambigous communication in a certain field of activity (Cabré 2000:36). The functions of T1 are the following: to represent the knowledge, to establish the name of new concepts and transmit the knowledge. Internal terminology is systematic and cognitive (Lerat 1995:61), achieving the normative goals by making terminological data bases (lately there has been a great focus on the linguistics of corpora, the analysis of the text-based corpora with statistic 1 Lecturer, Ph.D. candidate, Romanian-American University, coancamaria@yahoo.com 2 Ph.D. Lecturer, Romanian-American University, emuseanu@yahoo.com