Transfer of Terms in Formation of Modern Terminological Systems

Valentina Maslova

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Doctor of Philology, Professor of Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov (Vitebsk, Belarus)

e-mail: mvavit@tut.by.

Title: Transfer of Terms in Formation of Modern Terminological Systems

Rubric: Theory and History of Terminology

Abstract: The article analyzes the two terms, which have become extremely popular in cultural linguistics, the transfer and the code, as well as the possibility of their use; the fact of transfer origin is the most important trend in the formation of terminological systems.
Сultural transfer is the process of transferring knowledge between different cultures, professional communities and discourses. The methodology of transfers implies the identification of mechanisms for the “cultural transfer of meanings.” The problem of the convertibility of knowledge between different cultural practices and areas of humanitarian knowledge (philosophy, semiotics, linguistics, philology, ethnography, etc.) arises in connection with the synthesis of knowledge, their penetration from one area to another.
In this regard, the general humanitarian theory of the “cultural transfer”, which was developed in the 80s by French historians and literary scholars M. Espan and M. Werner, is becoming a promising approach to the analysis of interscientific interactions in a globalized scientific and cultural space. Now the term is widely used in such areas of scientific knowledge as translation theory, psychology, history, linguistics, banking, tourism, economics, educational environment, politics, management, etc.
Transfserization of terms is one of the most productive ways of creating a terminology system for linguoculturology. The formation of a metalanguage of 11 such an integrative discipline as linguoculturology has its own specifics, which can be described as an interdisciplinary transfer in the course of which the various terms that lead to their development in a new scientific environment are conjugated and correlated. As a result, an important scientific idea about the holistic reflection, born of the integrated knowledge about the interaction of a person, his consciousness, culture and language, ripens.

Keywords: term, terminology, transfer, code, linguoculturology.

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