Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija „Current Trends in Terminology“

188 Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler | Current trends in terminology JoLANtA gAivENYtĖ-BUtLER Institute of Lithuanian Language On November 9-10, 2006, the Berzsenyi Dániel College in Debrecen, Hungary, hosted the speakers from twelve European countries – Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, international scientific conference Current Trends in Terminology, attended by Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovakia – and Iran. The work of the conference continued for two days in three sections: Terminology and translation, National terminologies and terminology policies, and Terminography and LSP lexicography. A collection of conference papers has been published, and a collection of articles is planned. The conference was organized by the Department of Ural Studies, the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Centre for Terminology Innovation of kalbos(LSP)leksikografija). Pranešimai skaityti anglų ir vokiečių kalbomis. Berzsenyi Dániel College in cooperation with the Hungarian Terminology Council MaTT and the Hungarian National Commission to UNESCO. The conference participants were greeted by Prof. Károly’s Gadányi’s, Rector of Berzsenyi Dániel College, Dr. Katalin Molnár, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and Prof. János Pusztay’s, Chairman of the Organizing Committee. Three reports are being read in plenary. Valentīna Skujiņa from the Latvian Language Institute and Ilze Ilziņa from the Riga Institute of Information Technology presented the new needs of Latvian terminologists. Their presentation Challenges of Latvian terminology in a multilingual society briefly recalled the history of Latvian terminology, presented the activities of the Terminology Commission at the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and outlined the current problems of Latvian terminology – the abundance of unjustified synonyms, the emergence of polysemy determined by other languages, the contradictory meanings of international terms, the confusion of partly overlapping terms from different fields that designate different concepts. International Scientific Conference Terminology | 2007 | 14 189 The examples of telecommunications and information technology showed that the development of national terminology requires a thorough analysis of the structure and semantics of terms in different languages. The presentation by Infoterm Director Christian Galinski on Terminology in the web (accessibility), via the web (distribution) and through the web (creation) focused on the need to create accurate, correct, easily and timely accessible terminology. Old but still unresolved terminology problems were recalled – insufficient recognition of its importance, lack of easily accessible quality resources, use of old sensitive methods (and their cost), lack of mutual respect and cooperation between specialists from different fields when working on terminology, and others. The rapporteur stressed the importance of preparing and managing terminology at the earliest stages of product or service development. Rita Temmerman from Brussels Erasmushogeschool, who was supposed to read her presentation in the plenary session, could not come, so her presentation Why we need dynamic terminological resources was read by E. Papp at the request of the conference organizers. The main focus was on the cognitive approach to terminology, terminology variation in various discourses. Most of the papers were read in the section National terminology and terminology policy. A. Auksoriūtė and J. Gaivenytė-Butler introduced the audience to the general principles of Lithuanian terminology. The presentation briefly discusses the origins of Lithuanian terminology, focusing on the terminology works of J. Pabrėža and S. Šalkauskas and K. Gaivenis’ attempts to formulate the principles of Lithuanian terminology. K. Kerremans from Erasmushogeschool spoke about the terminology of electronic human resources management (e-hRM). He emphasized that the terms of personal abilities and competence assessment are a very important part of the professional terminology used by large companies, drew attention to the variability of these terms and introduced the PocehRMOM project, which aims to create a trilingual terminology array in this field. Ms. A. Foris, representing Berzsenyi Dániel College, read a presentation on the application of scale-free networks theory in terminology. The speaker emphasized that the accurate formulation of the transferred knowledge of any field can be ensured by the term graphs (trees). O. czékman compared the terminology of German and Hungarian mathematics textbooks for higher schools. The paper prepared by three authors from the University of Pécs – E. Zsigmond, L. Kozma and T. Laczkó discussed the 190 Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler | International Scientific Conference current... that new fields take over old concepts and old terms, but old terms acquire new meanings, and therefore there is a need to harmonize concepts and terminology systems. Z. Makai’us presented an analysis of Hungarian radiology terminology based on textbook data, the aim of which is to reveal the most important radiology concepts, establish the relationships between terms and concepts, define new terms and improve the terminology system. J. Pusztay’us from Berzsenyi Dániel College spoke about the development of terminology of regional Finno-Ugric languages. I. Dósa from Budapest Business School, comparing English and Hungarian accounting terminology, emphasized the need to notice and understand the differences in terminology between different languages and the sources of errors resulting from these differences. J. Levická from the L’udovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics presented the terminology work in Slovakia, the terminology portal and the monolingual term database. K. Babos (Hungary) presented the institutions working on terminology in Portugal and terminology projects in Portuguese-speaking countries. h. Van der Vliet and M. Meinen presented the activities of Dutch terminologists. To bridge the gap between scholars interested in terminology theory and terminology users (translators, government institutions, etc.), the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) has established the SNT (Steunpunt Nederlandse Terminologie) to provide information on terminology issues and promote the use of Dutch terminology. V. Voigtas from the Hungarian terminology council MaTT raised the question whether there are modern trends in terminology. According to the professor, if terminology can be considered a branch of applied linguistics, it is influenced by the current directions of linguistics and lexicography. In Hungary, where terminology is a relatively new field, all directions that influence terminology work are modern. S. Nematzadeh from Alzahra University introduced the audience to the creation of terminology in Iran, illustrated the criteria for terminology selection proposed by the Terminology Department of the Persian Language and Literature Academy with examples of Persian language. h. Palm talked about the growing awareness of the importance of terminology work in Sweden and a new problem faced by the Swedish terminology centre TNc – the excessive use of the term definition by various terminology projects, when due to insufficient understanding of the concept of definition, it is attempted to define everything instead of listing, describing or determining. Z. Rihmer from the University of Szeged presented a very detailed report on the changes in the concept of liturgical printing referred to as editio typica and their influence on the translation of this term into other languages and on liturgical printing as a whole. Hungarian health terminology of the 20th century. The speakers pointed out Terminology | 2007 | 14 191 nies system. In this section we also read a couple of reports about place names. Mr Szabómihály from Slovakia spoke about the diversity of Hungarian place names used in Hungary and in the former Kingdom of Hungary and the need to harmonise them. L. Salvato and G. Gobberi from the Catholic University of Milan, using examples from different countries, discussed the problems posed by the variation of place names. In the section Terminology and translation, the difficulties of translation and the search for suitable equivalents were discussed. The presentation by L. Ablonczy-Mihályka and K. Ziska-Kiczenko from Széchenyi István University was devoted to the Hungarian terminology of regional economy. The speakers discussed some of the terms in other languages in this field and their Hungarian equivalents, mentioned dictionaries and databases containing the most accurate terms in this field. D. Tamás from Etövös Loránd University compared bilingual and multilingual printed and electronic dictionaries of economic terms published in Hungary and examined the equivalence of terms and concepts in these dictionaries. E. cauna presented the Academic Terms Database created by the Latvian Academy of Sciences, which contains more than twenty Latvian, English and Russian terms from various dictionaries published in Latvia over the past century. The presentation by E. Bérces discusses terms denoting the rhythm of music from various dictionaries published in Hungary. P. heltai’us from the University of Pannonia, based on examples from dictionaries and textbooks, examined English and Hungarian terms in several fields. The speaker drew attention to the fact that the linguistic features of different language terms change as well as the everyday vocabulary, they are affected by the same lexical-semantic processes, so the translation of terms can not always be an automatic process, even when the terms of two languages coincide and there is an opportunity to use dictionaries or term banks. I. Prosenc Šegula from the University of Ljubljana spoke about the various terminological problems that the speaker faced when translating Primo Levi’s book of essays I sommersi e I salvati from Italian to Slovenian. Mr. Horváth’s presentation, illustrated with interesting examples, was devoted to the difficulties encountered in translating English and American contracts into Hungarian. The speaker pointed out that the English legal language has specific features and related translation difficulties in the lexical, semantic and syntactic domains (abundant use of obsolete words, terms acquiring special narrowly used meanings, quite frequent tautological word combinations). Z. Bánhegyi and T. Koltay examined some new terms in library and information science that came from English and their Hungarian equivalents. 192 Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler | International Scientific Conference current... discussed the multilingual terminology resources of various countries and the problems of their creation. E. Papp from the University of Pécs introduced the Hungarian culture dictionary for Hungarian language learners. E. Terestyéni from Budapest Business School spoke about the terms of the newest and fastest growing branch of tourism – ecotourism. The speaker drew attention to the non-established concepts and variations in English and Hungarian terms, similarities and differences in terms between these languages. The Rádai-Kovács/Fisher report was about EU terminology. The authors examined the interaction of languages and conceptual systems in the EU space, its impact on the creation of terms in many languages and pointed out that the creation of multilingual terminology in the administration and partly in the legal fields in the EU space is primarily based on direct translation of terms, while in special fields (environmental protection, migration policy, etc.) more attention is paid to the search for equivalents. I. Fata from Péter Pázmány Catholic University spoke about the Hungarian-German pension insurance dictionary. The rapporteur pointed out that the German part is based not only on the terms used in Germany, but also in Austria and Switzerland, so the basic principle of the dictionary is “two languages – four systems of concepts”. A. Braasch, L. Henriksen and C. Povl se nas from the University of Copenhagen presented strategies for automated linking articles from several terminology resources, based on the experience of creating IATE and EuroTermBank. The presentation by B. De Santis, M. Tiberi, F. Mazzocchi was devoted to the presentation of languages and cultures in multilingual thesauruses. The authors pointed out that multilingual thesauruses prepared on the basis of a monolingual (usually English) thesaurus do not reflect the differences in terms and terminology between different languages. h. J. Kockaert, T. Vanallemeerscho and F. Steurs from Lessius hogeschool discussed the importance of textual separation tools in harmonizing legal terminology in translations. Two reports were read at the closing session. Gábor Prószéky – MorphoLogic and Péter Pázmány Catholic University representative – in his presentation Development of a Hungarian ontology and its applications reviewed the ontologies projects – wordNet in English, EurowordNet and BalkaNet in multilingual versions. The speaker also presented the Hungarian version of wordNet. Arvi Tavastas from the University of Tallinn delivered a presentation on Functionalism in terminology, in which he discussed not only primary and secondary nomination, but also The section Terminology and Special Language (SL) Lexicography mainly Terminology | 2007 | 14 193 The third nomination, when the term is translated without understanding the concept, briefly outlines the functionalist approach to semantics. The speaker presented the results and also klausimą, ar šis požiūris galėtų pagerinti praktinius terminologijos darbo presented the data of the survey. Ágota Fóris, PhD, one of the organizers, gave an overview of the conference. The conference in Sombathye discussed topical terminology issues and shared experiences from various countries. In this city you can still see fragments of the stone-paved Amber Road, which connected the Roman Empire with the Baltic Sea coasts. For centuries, this road has linked the nations of Europe through trade. Last November, it symbolically connected Southern and Central Europe, the Baltic and Scandinavian countries through scientific ties. Retrieved 2007-12-11. Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler Institute of Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Email: [email protected]