Ukrainian Terminology in the Dissertations of the 21st Century

Abstract

Over the past decade Ukrainian terminology decade has taken a significant step forward, due to many factors: 1) many universities introduced special courses on problems of terminology and professional terminology; 2) familiar with the term and professional terminosystem, included in Ukrainian language for professional purposes; 3) issued a lot of educational literature (textbooks, manuals, workshops, etc), which help the students in learning process; 4) published a significant number of terminological dictionaries (explanatory and translated), and the thesaurus; 4) defended a number of dissertations in terminology; 5) There are considered and analyzed the theses of the Ukrainian terminology in different scientific areas, published during the years 2000-2016, revealed the specifics of each work, made general conclusion about the condition of Ukrainian terminology at the time of 2016. The main focus is made on the branch termsystems, peculiarities of their description, and new directions in Ukrainian terminology. conducted regional and international conferences on terminology (Kyiv, Rivne, Lviv). In the first decades of the XXI century, a number of scientific articles in Ukrainian scientific terminology has been published. This article covers abstracts, which describe certain scientific fields, conducted a detailed review of the problems, positions of analysis, and conclusions. As we know, every scientific field has its own terminology which is a specific system, it has its own logical organization, well-known to specialists, and linguistic specificity that needs to be found by linguists. Only since 2000 year till now, there has been defended more than 100 dissertations which describe about 50 scientific branches and give recommendations for improving in them terms and nomens due to their terminological and common language norms. Today in terminology a number of independent branches of research has been singled out: theoretical, applied, historical comparative functional etc. Recently works of cognitive (epistemological) directions, terminological theory of the text, and the like have appeared. A separate branch is the consideration of special vocabulary in the dialects of Ukrainian language. The attention of researchers to terminology has been drawn from different points of view: thematic and lexical-semantic content, structure, origin, formation, development, functioning, systemic organization, paradymatics and syntagmatic, normalization and codification. On the one hand, this is good, because it has been mainly used some analogical schemes of analysis, but from the other hand there is not enough work that would summarize all these studies (each direction and each branch in particular), define the specificity in each of the, language-structure, respect, lexical, word forming systemic etc. Even a brief review of abstracts’ dissertations in terminology permits with certain to speak about a number of still not investigated fields of science. And it gives the opportunity to young scientists to choose in their scientific work the properniche that will allow not only to get a scientific degree, but also to help the Ukrainian science in the future, some approval in it of Ukrainian language.