Отраслевая лексикография Беларуси

Abstract

Определяется место отраслевой лексикографии в ряду сопредельных словарных направлений (исследовательская, дисциплинарная, терминологиче- ская, научно-техническая, специальная лексикография). Рассматривается струк- тура отраслевой лексикографии Беларуси. Обосновывается вывод об интегра- тивной функции отраслевой лексикографии в структуре национальной терми- нографической традиции

The quality of any national terminography directly depends on the availability of both the necessary dictionary-reference knowledge among the subject-specialists who create the terminography products, and the activity of professional terminologists in exercising their methodological and expert functions in the process of the evaluation and correction of the published terminography products today. The achievements and problems of the modern Belarusian terminography are fully defined by the degree of fulfillment of the above conditions. On the one hand, the indisputable achievements of modern Belarusian terminography should include the following characteristics: 1) there are several thousand subject-specialists and termino-logy professionals involved in the Belarusian terminography process today, and the process itself covers the majority of scientific disciplines and branches of knowledge represented in Belarus; 2) over two thousand terminology dictionaries and reference books of different types have been published in Belarusian, Russian, Polish, English and other languages as the practical result of the terminography activities of these Belarusian subject-specialists and terminology professionals. On the other hand, the unsolved problems of modern Belarusian terminography should include the following: 1) there is a clearly insufficient level of cooperation between the subject-specialists and terminology professionals of Belarus. If a closer union between these terminologists and subject-specialists is not established in the nearest future, then experts in Belarusian terminography and the science of terminology are likely to stop coordinating their professional efforts with the general science of Belarusian philology, and the further development of these cross-cutting disciplines will follow separate paths as is already happening in some countries in the West; 2) the comparative analysis of the classifications of branches of professional knowledge (alphabetic, subject, thematic and systemic indexes supplemented to terminography guides) created in Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine has shown a large difference in their contents. The development of a more versatile rubricator of these professional knowledge branches might solve this problem.