INTERNATIONAL TERMINOLOGY CONFERENCE

CO-OPERATION IN THE FIELD OF TERMINOLOGY IN CENTRAL EUROPE

On 7–8 October 2005, an international terminology conference Co-operation in the Field of Terminology in Central Europe. was held in the Hungarian city of Szombathely. It was organized by the Departments of Applied Linguistics and Uralistics (Finno-Ugristics) at Berzsenyi Daniel College. Linguists from Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Hungary participated in the conference. Papers were presented in English, German, and Hungarian.

The first day of the conference focused on language policy and terminology, and terminology in specific fields was examined.

Gizella Szabómihály (Slovakia) presented a paper on problems in Slovak language policy, language planning, and terminology. The topic of the paper by János Pusztay (Hungary), professor at Berzsenyi Daniel College, was Terminology and Language Policy. Katalina Misad, who works at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), spoke about semantic and pragmatic aspects of the development (creation) of special languages. She also briefly discussed the situation of the Hungarian language in Slovakia.

Nijolė Litevkienė, a doctoral student at Šiauliai University, compared Lithuanian and Latin four-word anatomical terms in her paper Changes in Lithuanian and Latin Four-Word Anatomical Terms. Hungarian scholar Mária Solymosi (University of Szeged, Hungary) presented a paper on genetic terminology.

Two papers were devoted to religious terminology. Aušra Rimkutė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language) presented a paper entitled The Development of Terminology in Lithuanian Catholic Catechisms from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century. Zoltán Rihmer (Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Hungary) spoke about language policy and the religious terminology of the Catholic Church.

Arvis Tavastas, who works at Tallinn Pedagogical University and the University of Tartu, spoke about terminology resources and the criteria for evaluating them.

Balázs Kis introduced the conference participants to EuroTermBank, a project supported by the European Commission EuroTermBank.

The second day of the conference was devoted not only to terminology, but also to problems in terminography.

Professor Vilmos Voigt (Hungary) of the University of Budapest spoke

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about MaTT – the Hungarian Terminology Council, which was established only in the summer of 2005.

Ádám Kis (Budapest University, Hungary) pointed out that the rapid development of science, technology and production requires terminology to develop rapidly as well.

Tõnu Seilenthal (University of Tartu, Estonia) spoke about the preparation of an Estonian–Hungarian dictionary (60,000 words). The dictionary is scheduled for publication in 2006. The linguist briefly discussed which fields’ terms are included in the dictionary.

Hungarian scholars Géza Balázs (Berzsenyi Daniel College, Hungary) and Judita Szilvia Várnai (University of Szeged, Hungary) gave presentations on the state of Hungarian-language terminology.

Katalina Tolnay (TRADOS, Hungary) presented a paid terminology database (for more information, see www.translationzone.com) and explained how to use it.

During the two-day conference, participants discussed terminology in various fields, as well as language and language-policy issues in general. They also shared their experience in terminography.

The next international terminology conference in Hungary is scheduled to take place in two years.

Aušra RIMKUTĖ

Institute of the Lithuanian Language

P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius

E. paštas [email protected], [email protected]

Received 2005-12-06

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