Terminologų pranešimai tarptautiniame baltistų kongrese Rygoje

TERMINOLOGY NOTIFICATIONS INTERNATIONAL BALTIST CONGRESS IN RIGA 2000 IN OCTOBER 3-6 DAYS An internationIX al congress of Baltists was held in Riga — "The Baltic Language at the Turn of the Century". In two plenary sessions, in four jo sections, the general issues of ir Baltistics were reviewed in the fields of grammar, lexicology, lexicography, semantics, phonetics, onomastics, stylistics, language culture, textology, ancient texts, sociolinguistics, computational mathematical linguistics. A lot of reports have been read on ir synchronous linguistics. Congress opened by the President ir of the Republic of Latvia mų ir iš Vaira VikeFreiberga. Papers read by linguists iš Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Italy, Sweden. A number of terminologists also participated in the congress. Lithuanian terminologists read their reports. Research 2 associate Albina Auksoriute read a report about one of the famous iš The a. creator of Lithuanian natural science terms in the middle of the 19th century Lauryno Ivinskis mushroom names presented in the mushroom atlas ir In the nature. The report me discussed the names of species of ir mushroom genera in ir comparison su J. Emphasis on terms used. Senior Research Associate Stasio Keinis’s report, which was not read at the congress, deals with the nationality of Lithuanian terminology. It is now very common to talk about the internationality of terminology, because many ir international terms are used in various fields. However, according to the author, “the international nature of what is expressed by means of language does not indicate the internationality of the language itself”, because each language is unique. Specific ir terminology of each national language. St. Keinys discusses the basic methods 2 of term creation, terminology of nų ordinary words, and term creation — by means of his own language. ir These methods were used both by the first Lithuanian terminology creators and First half a. of the 19th century — XX a. the Lithuanian language of science. The main ideas of the presentation of senior research associate Angela Kaulakienė “Lithuanian terminology sources change trends” are devoted to the problem of 104 Lithuanian terminology specificity. The author also emphasizes that the means of her own language were one of the most important sources of the creation of terminology. Currently, a new trend in the change of Lithuanian ir terminology sources is the iš borrowing of terms, which, unfortunately, sometimes is completely unfounded, resulting in a disproportion of the borrowed terminology. — ir ir In order to to avoid this, the author proposes to rely on our initial terminologyinprof. ko S. To create as many Lithuanian terms as ir possible based on the principle of Šalkauskio language ir purity. Terms, like common language words, are normalized through synonyms. Three presentations on terminology topics were read Riga scientists. Ilgos Topic of the message — „Terminologieprobleme bei der Übersetzung iš von Fachtexten aus dem į Deutschen ins Lettische“ („Terminologieprobleme bei der Übersetzung von Fachtexten aus dem Translation of the Technical texts from German into Latvian"). The role of translators of technical texts is becoming increasingly important. Iš jų only very ne good language is expected, but ir knowledge of the subject. Translators who translate iš from German į into Latvian face additional ir difficulties in many — scientific and ir technical fields due to the lack of approved terminology. Thus, when translating German words, Latvian names are often improvised. This is because the tradition of translating technical texts into Latvian has į been neglected for many years. Mostly only fictional texts were translated. Also in the theoretical ir literature almost exclusively analyzed and evaluated ir only translations of fictional texts. As a particular difficulty in translating technical texts, the author refers to ir long and complex German words. Terminology of Riga Birutos Uzija’s presentation “Dynamics of modern terminology” deals with of philosophical problems of terminology. su Ji briefly discusses very broad concepts, e.g. : “man”, “peace”, ir etc. How it formed Latvian legal language, which influenced its formation in the Soviet years after the restoration of independence; Features of Latvian legal language, issues ir of legal terminology standardization speak about it — Andrejs Veisbergs in his presentation “Shaping Latvian legal 105 language — the — results by year 2000”. 2000 The next Baltic Congress is scheduled to be held po 4 Years In Vilnius. Palmira ZEMLEVIČIŪTĖ Palmira ZEMLEVIČIŪTĖ 2000 10 16 Institute of Lithuanian Language Antakalnio g. 6 LT-2055, Vilnius 106