A contrastive analysis on the international standard terminologies of tongue manifestation between WHO version and ISO TC249 version / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

The paper takes the shared terms of tongue manifestations in the book World Health Organization International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region.2007 and ISO 23961-12021 Traditional Chinese medicine-Vocabulary for diagnostics-Part 1Tongue,as the basic contrastive analysis corpus, and. makes Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine edited by Zhu Wenfeng and the eighth edition of Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary as reference books . Based on the translation theory of "Adaptation" and "Selection", the main characteristics of the terminology standards of tongue manifestation in the two versions are analyzed and summarized from the dimension of language, culture and communication. And then, problems such as selection of terms, difference of term property and structure, single choices of term-selection standard for compound tongue manifestations, different contexts for the same term and a lack of certain terminologies are found. Thus, this paper finds that to achieve different communicative effects in the context, the differences of the applicable objects of terms should be considered. These findings suggest that terms of WHO serve as the tool of education and training, targeting practitioner as main user, while terms of ISO serve as information objectivization, aiming to specify data exchange for diagnostic instrument.