Department of Terminology and Terminography
Period: 2011–2014
Type of project: Collective
Funding: Budget subsidy
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. M. Simeonova, PhD
Participants: Assoc. Prof. M. Simeonova, PhD; Chief Assist. Prof. E. Petkova, PhD; A. Hristova; Kr. Simeonova
Abstract:
The Dictionary of Ecological Terms, currently under preparation, is part of a series of dictionaries of key terms intended for educational purposes and for practical use by the general public. At the same time, the three volumes published so far—covering the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social and political sciences—are widely used by specialists in the respective fields. The dictionaries help users clarify the meanings of terms and understand the systematic relationships both within individual subject fields and across different fields of knowledge (internal and external systematicity). They incorporate the results of theoretical research on the meaning and content of terms, conceptual and semantic systematicity in terminology, and lexical, semantic, and formal variation. The principal terms are presented through definitions, accompanied by concise encyclopaedic information, and organised into classification groups.
The aim of the project is to support the terminological practice of specialists in various scientific fields, students, journalists, and the wider public, while ensuring precision and unambiguity in professional communication across all fields of knowledge. The project’s main task is the compilation of terminological dictionaries (currently, a Dictionary of Ecological Terms) through the collection of terms and the provision of definitions and supplementary information.
The project employs a variety of approaches and methods, including the systematic approach; a combination of semasiological and onomasiological approaches; primarily a synchronic, but also a diachronic approach; and, to some extent, a comparative approach. Within these frameworks, cognitive methods, case grammar, componential analysis, and other specialised methods and procedures are applied.
The project contributes to two of the Institute for Bulgarian Language’s principal research areas: Academic Dictionaries of the Bulgarian Language and Language Culture.
Presentation of the results: terminological dictionaries.