Therefore, to different degrees depending on the particular domain, terminology planning may have to take into account these non-linguistic representations as well.
While terminology planning is an important part of language planning it may be useful for language communities to separate the two activities for simplification of its complexity in order to better focus programmes and resources, and thus receive better results.
Because language planning also concerns the development of the lexicon of a language, and because domain communication consists to a great extent of linguistic representations of concepts there exists a large area of overlapping between the two concepts.
Public strategy formulated at the level of political decision-making in a more or less autonomous language community with the aim of developing or regulating emerging or existing terminologies for an array of purposes.
Especially enterprises increasingly feel the need for a systematic terminology planning in connection with corporate language or language localization and translation questions.