In their introduction to the special issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series about the translation of domain specific languages and multilingual terminology management, Temmerman and Knops approach the subject from a theoretical perspective. They first discuss domain-specific languages, terminology and translation, and translation-oriented terminography, they then enter into new developments in terminology theory and adjacent disciplines, talk about computational multilingual terminology management and finally shed some light upon terminological knowledge bases and ontologies.