Identifies and investigates concepts.
• 2. Limited to terms and vocabulary items that designate
concepts.
• 3. Synchronic not diachronic, examining current state of concept systems and identifying their relationships.
• 4. Concerned with methods of creating and unifying terms. • 5. Contributes to language enrichment and development.
• 6. Concerned only with written, not spoken, terms
• 7. Specifies the designation of term components.
• 8. Has an international perspective and vision.
• 9. Aims at language planning and embraces standardization.
• 10. Interdisciplinary, related to the various fields of knowledge.