LEGAL CULTURE AND CODIFICATION OF INDUSTRY TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

The problem of effective practical interdisciplinary and intersectoral application of industry (special) terminologies (including in law enforcement practice) is caused by the chaotic generation of terms and the probabilistic nature of the formation of terminologies. This is partly due to the lack of terminological and legal competencies of industry scientists and practitioners. Therefore, the goal of systematically streamlining industry terminologies, taking into account their interdisciplinary and intersectoral application, is achieved by solving the following problems: analysing of factual material; increasing the efficiency of the process of streamlining and codifying industry terminologies, terminological and legal competencies of industry specialists. The latter is proposed to be linked with the formation of terminological and legal culture and tradition. This makes it possible to achieve greater orderliness of industry terminology, legal clarity and unambiguity of codified terms through the efforts of interdisciplinary groups of scientists and practitioners. The main factual material is related to the use of medical terminology and the “wastewater” terminology system. The following were assessed: terminological and legal culture according to the level of relevant competencies of industry specialists; facts of inconsistent codification of terminologies and the absence of a common organizational cultural tradition of codification of terms and terminologies were analyzed; experience in the use of codified and non-codified terms and terminology systems in law enforcement practice. To solve the research problems, terminological, systemic and other well-known methodologies, methods and approaches were used. It was proposed to: improve the legal and terminological culture of developers of industry terminologies; form a tradition of ordering and codification of terms and terminologies; create interdisciplinary teams of competent specialists to solve codification problems; take into account previously made decisions and the experience of their application in law enforcement practice. A practically significant result is associated with the effective use of ordered and codified industry terminologies in law enforcement practice.