International Symposium

Terminology and Knowledge

AUŠRA RIMKUTĖ-GANUSAUSKIENĖ

Vytautas Magnus University

On June 6–8, 2014, the IV International Symposium Terminology and Knowledge. was held at the V. V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Terminologists from China, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, and Lithuania participated.

The International Symposium was opened, and its participants were welcomed, by the organizers: habilitated doctor S. Shelov, head of the Terminology Center at the V. V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language; Dr. A. Cumariov, a researcher at the center; and Dr. J. Cisunas, a researcher at the Center for Russian Language, Literature and Culture at Heilongjiang University (China), together with his colleague C. Shupu.

The first day of the symposium was devoted to plenary papers. A total of 10 were delivered. L. Aleksiejeva and S. Mishlanova (Perm, Russia) devoted much attention in their paper to the linguistic substrate of the term. I. Kazimirova (Kyiv, Ukraine) presented the state of terminography in Ukraine. The scholar noted that Ukrainian terminography had been influenced by Russian, Polish, and German experience. J. Cisunas surveyed dictionaries of terminology published since 1960 and the problems involved in compiling them. L. Beliajeva (Saint Petersburg, Russia) discussed procedures for the automatic extraction of terms from texts. G. Ivanova (Kirov, Russia) spoke about working synonyms and variants in linguistics and tried to define their boundaries using examples. L. Krysin (Moscow, Russia) addressed native and foreign terms in terminology systems. L. Manerko (Moscow) and A. Sharapov (Ryazan, Russia) analyzed the principles of cognitive-communicative terminology. K. Averbukh’s paper was devoted to E. Drezen, a prominent pioneer of terminology and Esperantist. V. Tabanakova of Tyumen (Russia) spoke about linguistic and philosophical paradigms in terminology, their connections and integration. S. Vinogradov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) raised the question of the precision of terms, since in the practical work of standardizing terms this is a very subjective and rather difficult thing to achieve. Thus, the plenary papers addressed various problems in terminology: the concept of the term, its precision, its

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extraction from texts, the origins of terms, sources of terminology, polysemy, synonymy, variants, as well as terminography and other topics.

On the second day of the conference, work took place in four sections. Four papers (by O. Burdina and S. Mishlanova, as well as M. Lazariova of Perm, and V. Ikonikova and E. Kakzanova of Moscow) examined problems in cognitive terminology. The same number of papers was delivered in the second section, devoted to terminology and general vocabulary: S. Shelov, like L. Ryckova (Grodno, Belarus), examined specialized vocabulary in dictionaries; L. Shestakova (Moscow) shared principles for analyzing terms collected from poets’ texts; and E. Sorokina (Moscow) spoke about the emergence of polysemy and homonymy. Terminology in particular scientific fields was analyzed in the third section. The author of this review discussed the development of Lithuanian religious terminology in catechisms published between 1800 and 1882. N. Karpuchina (Moscow) examined economic vocabulary. E. Lazutkina discussed models of the semantic structure of sentences. N. Kozlovskaya’s (Saint Petersburg) paper discussed the features of terms in Russian religious philosophy. In the final section, “Terminological Lexicography. Applied Terminology,” D. Dzanping (Beijing, China) spoke about the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine terms. I. Kudashev’s (Kouvola, Finland) paper discussed the presentation of specialized vocabulary in a phrasebook for tourists. E. Marinova (Nizhny Novgorod) raised theoretical questions about borrowing processes and loanwords in dictionaries. J. Kokorina (Moscow) spoke about conveying archaeological knowledge in a thesaurus-type terminology dictionary, while A. Cumariov drew everyone’s attention to how specialized vocabulary is marked in dictionaries and offered advice on how it should be presented. A total of 17 scholarly papers were delivered on the second day of the conference.

This year, the third day of the conference was devoted to an excursion to Valuevo, where participants visited the estate of the renowned 18th-century collector, Count Aleksei Musin-Pushkin. A sanatorium is now located there.

The International Symposium on Terminology was useful and interesting. It brought together representatives of various Russian schools of terminology; the most topical questions and emerging problems in terminology were discussed, practical work experience was shared, and close ties were established.

Received 2014-12-01

Aušra Rimkutė-Ganycauskienė Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas Gimnazijos g. 7, LT-44260 Kaunas E. paštas [email protected]

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