Introduction: Terminology, ideology and discourse.

This summary provides an overview of a special issue of the journal Terminology that explores the relationship between terminology and ideology in discourse. The issue includes six papers that use corpus linguistics methods to investigate terminology in various subject areas and languages. The first article examines the presence of ideology in a project for the popularization of Chinese scientific and technical terminology in China. The second article analyzes shifts in terminology related to Body Dysmorphic Disorder, reflecting societal ideologies regarding beauty standards and self-image. The third article explores the representation of disability in the institutional discourse of the European Union, while the fourth article investigates the power of metaphor in the formation of terms for vulnerable people in European Union English and Mandarin Chinese. The summary concludes by highlighting the importance of further research in understanding the various forms of terminological variation and ideological influences in terminology. [Extracted from the article]