Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija „Letonika ir kultūrų migracija“

223Terminologija | 2015 | 22 International Scientific Conference on Latvians and Cultural Migration SOLVITA LABANAUSKIENĖ Institute of Lithuanian Language On 23-24 February 2015, the Institute of Latvian Language Tonica and Culture scientific conference dedicated to the 142nd anniversary of the birth of Migration of the University of Latvia organized the annual international Latvian linguist Janis Endzelīns. Presentations will be read in Latvian, Lithuanian, English and Russian. The presentation of the first day’s pre-lunch part was devoted to revealing J. endzelyno activities in 1947–1950. Latvian linguist Sarma Kliavinia (Kļaviņa) (Riga) told about the accusations against the world-famous Baltist ignoring the teachings of the “new linguistic science” created by the Marxist academic Nikolai Mar. ina Druviete (LU Institute of Latvian Language) presented the decision of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia in 2014 to supplement the 1922 Constitution of the Republic of Latvia with an Introduction (called Preamble), which sets out the constitutional values. Onomastics specialist Ojārs Bušs (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia) commented on the interpretations of the origin of some Latvian towns (Priekuļi, Staicele, Viliaka). Richardas Balodis and Ināra Opmane (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Latvia) presented their knowledge about the possibilities offered by the computer resources services of their institute. Igors Koškins (Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia) presented a report on Slavic-origin loanwords and hereditary words in Latvian, focusing on the onomastological aspect and historical Latvian dictionaries. Zaiga ikerė (ikere) (Daugavpils University) read a presentation on the topic “Interpretation of connotations in linguistics and the communicative value of the word bāleliņš [“child, clover” – S. L.]”. This word is a folk poetry, which in the media language, used sarcastically, has acquired a derogatory connotation. In the paper the author gave examples with the mentioned word, showing emotional expressiveness. 224 Solvita Labanauskienė | International Scientific Conference Afterwards the | Letonika ir kultūrų migracija work was continued in two sections. The first section focused on lexicology and terminology. Sandra Gaigalaitė (Vilnius University) in her presentation “Meaning of Lithuanian preposition per and Latvian preposition pār space” presented the meanings of named prepositions, determined from the collected work material. Anitra Roze (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia) discussed the origin of the name of the colour grey, the first cases recorded in Latvian lexicographical sources (from the 15th century) and the peculiarities of the current language vocabulary and usage. Sanita Lazdinija (Lazdiņa) (Rēzekne University), after conducting a sociolinguistic study, sought to clarify the linguistic situation and usage of Latvian on the border with Estonia. Aida Čižikaitė in her presentation “Expression of Time in Phraseology”, using the Lithuanian Phraseology Dictionary, reviewed how time is expressed by phraseologisms, whether phraseology is suitable for defining the expression of time, its flow and human being in time in a literal or figurative form. Maris Baltiņš (State Language Centre) spoke about the contribution of the University of Latvia in the years 1919-1944. The aim of the lecturer is to assess how the persons involved in university education were able to fully ensure the teaching process, create and improve the terminology system of their field during the first 25 years of existence. The speaker from Lithuania, Albina Auksoriūtė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) examined the work of the Terminology Commission from 1951 until the end of 1971, when the Terminology Council was established at the Presidium of the Lithuanian SSR MA. It was emphasized that in the years of the activity of the Terminology Commission the foundations for the further successful management of Lithuanian terminology were laid, the forms and methodology of this work were established and subsequently preserved and further developed. Solvita Štekerhofa (Ventspils University) spoke about the development of the language and terminology of criminal law under the influence of Russian and German legal culture in the Latvian newspaper “Pēterburgas avīzes” (“St. Petersburg Newspapers”) published in the first half of the 19th century. Anna Vulāne (LU Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art) presented a presentation on the terminology of Latvian language didactics. The speaker highlighted the significant changes in the Latvian educational system that began at the end of the 20th century and discussed the terms added to the teaching tools and methodical publications (pointed discussion, active notes, Proppo cards, bingo, snake, etc.), among which there are both successfully created or translated and less suitable for the teaching content. The last presentation of the first section, referred by Dace Strelevica-Ošiņa (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia), dealt with linguistic terminology as a stylistic tool used in poetry. 225Terminologija | 2015 | 22 In the second section, Renate Silina-Pinke (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia) discussed lexical Germanisms. She also outlined the structure and sources of the database and raised some relevant issues. Representative of the Higher School of Economics and Culture Jūlija Gabranova discussed the relations between Belarusian and Latvian languages, their perspective in Latvian linguistics. She stated that the Belarusian language has little significance in Latvia and the survey showed that compared to the situation at the beginning of the 20th century, the younger generation of Latvia has little knowledge of this language. Brigita Bušmane, a linguist at the Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia, presented the names of dumplings of Slavic origin (kliockas and zacirka and their variants) in Latvian dialects. A guest from Poland, Małgorzata Ostrówka (Institute of Slavic Studies) talked about tombstone inscriptions in Latgale (Rēzekne and Kraslava), which testify to existing cultures and languages. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė (Vilnius University) read the presentation “Latvian names in Lithuania: grammatical form and their variantity according to the population register of the Republic of Lithuania”. According to her, Latvians who have the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania are mostly given unidentified names, which are grammatically formalized differently: some have endings typical of the Lithuanian language, for example, Oskaras, Rimantas, others – infinitive names, for example, Vaclav, Zigurd, and thirds are written with the ending -s characteristic of the Latvian language, for example, Aivars, Edgars. The intermediate position is occupied by names with -is, such as Arnis, Janis, which are typical of Latvians and are compatible with Lithuanian. Ilga Jansone, the director of the Institute of Latvian Language at the University of Latvia, told about how in 1826, when farmers were given surnames, a small semantic group of surnames appeared, which was based on another anthroponym. Sanda Rapa (LU Institute of Latvian Language), speaking about desemantization in Latvian toponymy, mentions partial and complete desemantization and transemantification. A guest from the Institute of Regional Studies of Rēzekne University of Applied Sciences read a presentation on the linguistic image of the multicultural and multilingual Latvian city of Daugavpils in the 19th-21st centuries (i.e. information about the city and its inhabitants, the diversity of events and processes, as well as the linguistic situation, the language skills of citizens, as well as the cultural history and socio-economic situation of certain localities). Beatrice Reidzāne from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Lithuania presented a study on the depiction of wolf and bear in folk songs, considering that these are popular characters in all related European languages. The second day of the conference began with ieva Fybiga (Fībiga) (Riga Classical Gymnasium). She discussed the language of medicine and its development in Ancient Greece. According to her, texts on the subject of medicine can be considered the ancient world 226 Solvita Labanauskienė | International Scientific Conference on the Theory | Letonika ir kultūrų migracija and Practice of Literary Translation. It is in them that concepts are found, which later became the basis of modern medical terms. The topic of medical terminology was continued by Palmira Zemlevičiūtė (Institute of Lithuanian Language). She reviewed the first Lithuanian periodical medical publication, which appeared only in the first decade of the 20th century. According to the speaker, the enthusiasm and dedication of Lithuanian doctors who wrote in the journal Medicine and Nature, the care for the purity and Lithuanianness of their professional language, the promotion of living language as the main source of terminology could be a beautiful and attainable example for today’s medical terminology workers. Bronius Maskuliūnas (University of Šiauliai) discusses the use of vowel diacritical marks in one of the largest Lithuanian publications of the 15th century – the so-called Jakūbo Morkūno Postila, published in 1600. This is a translation of the sermons of the Polish Reformer Mikalojus Rėjaus into Lithuanian. In summarizing, the researcher concluded that all the characters in question are used in J. Morkūno Postilas rather inconsistently and sporadically. J. Morkūnas mainly published Polish books, and in Lithuanian he probably published only the book discussed here, so this may be one of the reasons for the inconsistency of the spelling of Postila. The presentation on phonetics (“Classification of Latvian and Lithuanian monophthongs”) was read by Jurgita Jaroslavienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) and Juris Grigorjevas (Grigorjevs) (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Vilnius). In their words, the acoustic parameters proposed by various authors, which are used to define distinctive acoustic features, are discussed, comparing the universality of their use not only for Lithuanian and Latvian, but also for other languages. inesė indričanė (inese indričāne) and Jolita Urbanavičienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) talked about the spectral characteristics of explosive consonants. According to them, this study is innovative because it compares the spectral analysis of Latvian and Lithuanian explosive consonants using the same, previously agreed, methodology. The afternoon part of the conference was opened by Maris Kūlis (LU Institute of Philosophy and Sociology). He introduced the ideas of the Italian philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico, drawing attention to the influence of language on society, civilization and the state. ieva elsberga (University of Latvia), Sandra Kalninia (Ventspils Western High School) and Laura Ritenberga (Riga) discussed the contemporary interpretation of the concepts of linguistic environment and environmental language. Andris Hiršas (Hiršs) (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Vilnius) discussed the meaning of language in Terbatas’ personalist metaphysics. The presentation of Maja Brede (LU Faculty of Humanities) was devoted to language elements, 227Terminology | 2015 | 22 for expressing uncertainty, guess (for example, seems, think). After analyzing the material of various talk shows, the speaker concluded that this is an integral part of conversations, revealing not only the speaker’s doubt, but also a simple habit. After the coffee break, the presentations dealt with lexicography and literature. Santa Jeranė (Jērāne) (LU Institute of Latvian Language) was interested in less studied aspects of the structure of dictionaries. The paper reviews not only traditional macro and microstructures, but also mentions megastructure, hyperstructure, access structures, addressing structures, data distribution structures, etc. Solvita Labanauskienė (Lithuanian Language Institute) spoke about Lithuanian and Latvian synonyms and variant names of plants in Mykolas Miežinis’s Lietuviszkai-latviszkai-lenkiszkai-rusiszko dictionary. She revealed that the Lithuanian names of the plants found are common in both the Altai and the Zemgaly dialects, so it seems that M. Miežinis collected the names of the plants from the living language, working in various areas of Lithuania and Latvia. Asta Mitkevičienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) examined the names of literary genres and types of works in Lithuanian literary studies from 1918 to 1940. The researcher discussed the single-word names of literary genres and types of works used in Lithuanian-language books on literary theory, Lithuanian literary history, world and foreign literature history published in the interwar period (in independent Lithuania). The closing presentation of Regina Kvašytė (University of Šiauliai) was dedicated to the Lithuanian version of the book Tales of Flowers by Latvian writer Anna Sakse. She drew attention to language equivalents and peculiarities when translating Latvian literary tales into Lithuanian. The director of the Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia I. Jansone spoke about J. Endzelynas as a scientist who cared about the language of science and its system. He also wished this to every participant of the conference. The thesis collection of the conference is published online. Retrieved 2015-08-14. Solvita Labanauskienė Institute of Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius e-mail [email protected]