21-oji tarptautinė specialiosios kalbos konferencija „Tarpdalykinių žinių kūrimas: specialiosios kalbos tyrimų iššūkiai“

202 Asta Mitkevičienė 21st International Special Language Conference „Tarpdalykinių žinių kūrimas: specialiosios kalbos tyrimų iššūkiai“ 21st International Special Language Conference “Building Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Challenges of Special Language Research” ASTA MITKEVIČIENĖ Lietuvių kalbos institutas On 28-30 June 2017, the 21st International Conference on Language for Specific Purposes, which has been one of the most important events for researchers in this field for four decades, took place. The theme of this year’s conference is “Interdisciplinary knowledge-making: Challenges for LSP research” and the venue is Bergen, Norway. It was organized by the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and the University of Bergen. At the conference, the work took place in sections and workshops, new projects were presented in stand presentations. Researchers and practitioners from Europe, America, Asia and Africa read and discussed the papers. Invited speakers: Kjersti Fløttum (University of Bergen, Norway), Maria Teresa Musacchio (University of Padua, Italy), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, UK). K. Fløttum talked about the role of language in the problem of climate change, M. T. Musacchio’s presentation focused on the interdisciplinary perspectives of economic and financial communication, and P. Thompson looked at the interdisciplinary discourses of environmental change research through the analysis of textbooks. The main session was divided into the following topics: • terminology; • specialized discourse and knowledge communication; • multilingualism and language planning; • special language training; • specialized translation; • legal discourse. Next, briefly about the terminology section messages. Hans Landqvist (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Niina Nissilä and Nina Pilke (Vasas 203Terminologija | 2017 | 24 University of Tampere, Finland) spoke about terminological discussions between specialists and linguists in the subject in Sweden between 1941 and 1983. Marcus Müller (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany) examined the formation of essential terms of international relations in the discourse. Jelena Anđelković and Gordana Jakić (University of Belgrade, Serbia) presented a text-based study of metaphorical English and Serbian terms. Some of the findings of this study are also applicable to Lithuanian terminology. Miriam Leibbrand from the University of Economics and Business in Vienna (Austria) spoke about the terminology of the number around in French-speaking translations. Aurélie Picton (University of Geneva, Switzerland) presented a study on the variation of terms in French texts according to time, territory and communities of experts. Flavia De Camillis and Elena Chiocchetti (Eurac Research, Italy) spoke about the potential of socially impactful translation projects in today’s translation market. Lotte Weilgaard Christensen (University of Southern Denmark, Kolding) showed how the card sorting methodology can be applied in teaching to identify concept systems in terminology work. The joint presentation by Lulianna van der Lek-Ciudin (University of Leuven, Belgium), Ayla Rigouts Terryn (University of Ghent, Belgium), Geert Heyman (University of Leuven), Els Lefever (University of Ghent) and Frieda Steurs (University of Leuven) presented a study of the methods used by translators when searching for subject-specific terms. Kim Grego (University of Milan, Italy) and Alessandra Vicentini (University of Innsbruck, Varese, Italy) discussed a very sensitive topic – the discourse of medically assisted death in Western culture. The presentation by Tanja Wissik, Claudio Resch and Daniel Schopper, representatives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presented the historical thesaurus of Austrian criminal law of the 18th century. Kerstin Norén from the University of Gothenburg was interested in how scientific terms, which are also non-specialised words (e.g. energy), are explained in textbooks. Daniela Matić (University of Split, Croatia) talked about English terminology in Croatian computer teaching materials for universities. Some listeners were surprised by the reluctance of the specialists to use Croatian computer terms. In seven panels, presentations and discussions were held on the following topics: • information search in terminology using lexical knowledge models; • cognitive terminology research and its interdisciplinary methodology; • special language texts in specialized translation; 204 Asta Mitkevičienė 21st International Special Language Conference „Tarpdalykinių žinių kūrimas: specialiosios kalbos tyrimų iššūkiai“ • training of specialized translators; • interdisciplinary approaches to climate change communication and special language; • languages in international military conflicts; • Transatlantic and Pacific Project 2017: International cooperation in the face of rising nationalism. The thesis book of conference papers can be found online: https://www. nhh.no/contentassets/09a8aed5f0cb48ebac9e6abb23f5d084/book-of-abstracts-pr-220617.pdf. The 22nd Special Language Conference will be organized in two years (2019) in Padua, Italy. Retrieved 2017-10-28. 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