Robertas Stunžinas. „Statybos liaudies terminai“. Daktaro disertacija

252 Solvita Labanauskienė | Robertas Stunžinas CONSTRUCTION OF PEOPLE TERMS. Doctoral Dissertation Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 2011, 159 p. SOLvITA LABANAUSKIENė Institute of Lithuanian Language On June 28, 2011, Robertas Stunžinas, an employee of the Terminology Centre of the Lithuanian Language Institute, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic of “Folk terms of construction”, for which he chose an almost unexplored lexical layer. The research object of the thesis consists of 5533 construction folk terms and their variants. The aim of the dissertation is to establish the relationship of construction folk terms with scientific terminology, to investigate the expression of construction folk terms, meanings and interrelationships. Folk terms of construction are examined in the work by descriptive, comparative and statistical methods, as well as using the principles of component analysis. The author of the dissertation chose the Lithuanian Language Dictionary and the Lithuanian Language Atlas as main sources. The following dialect dictionaries provide a more detailed picture of the area of research: Druskininkai dialect dictionary, Kaltanėnai dialect dictionary, Kazlų Rūda dialect dictionary (vol. I), Kupiškėnai dialect dictionary (vol. I), Lazūnai dialect dictionary, Northeastern mud dialect dictionary and Zanavykai dialect dictionary (vol. The work of R. Stunžinas consists of introduction, two lecture parts, conclusions, lists of main sources (10 positions), additional sources (15 positions) and literature (119 positions). The introduction indicates the reasons for the choice of the dissertation topic, the novelty of the work, relevance, briefly reviews the sources of construction folk terms and research methods. 253Terminology | 2012 | 19 collections, the research object, the purpose of the work, the tasks and methods are presented, the concept of folk terms, construction folk terms, Lithuanian terms, borrowed, hybrid terms, synonymous terms, multi-meaning folk terms, homonymous terms, variants, metaphorical terms and metonymy terms used in the dissertation is explained. It also contains the defending statements and the author's published publication on the topic of the dissertation. The first of the main parts, The concept, characteristics and relationship of folk terms with scientific terms, discusses the characteristics of folk terminology and its relationship with scientific terminology. The author examines in more detail the differences between popular and scientific terms, discusses their semantic fields, categorization, classification, nomination of popular and scientific terms. The second part, Chapters of meaning, origin, synonymy, ambiguity, homonymy and variation of construction folk terms, consists of eight chapters and twenty-two subsections. This section examines the meaning, origin, synonymy, polysemy, homonymy and variation of terms. The entire material under investigation consists of the following important sections: 1) names of buildings, their parts and rooms, 2) names of building structures, 3) names of building fixtures, 4) names of fences and fences, 5) names of building materials, 6) names of construction tools, means and waste, 7) names of construction materials production sites, facilities and workshops, 8) names of construction craftsmen. In terms of origin, Lithuanian, foreign and mixed terms are discussed. The author first distinguishes the main, most important, terms, which are described below according to their hierarchical and non-hierarchical arrangement. The hierarchical arrangement is examined in terms of the relationship between genus and species and the whole and part. When distinguishing between generic and generic terms, the interpretations of the terms in the sources and the logical connections of the mentioned concepts are taken into account. This section also discusses the cases of hyponymous variation, which are intended to show the diversity of means of terminological expression. The synonymy of terms discusses the origin of terms and synonym strings. Separate attention is paid to metaphorical and metonymy terms. When analyzing the ambiguity of terms, the paradigmatic principle of semantic analysis is used, taking into account the relationships between terms. The last part of each chapter discusses the variation of the expression of terms. The dissertation is limited to cases where the variants differ only in one 254 Solvita Labanauskienė | sign. The variation is examined according to the language consonants and distinguishes three types of variants: accentual, phonetic and morphological. A thorough study of folk terminology is written, which is relevant, it provides a lot of summarized information about the construction folk terminology. R. Stunžinas’ dissertation will be used by current construction terminology managers, standardizers and improvers. Retrieved 2012-12-03 Solvita Labanauskienė Institute of Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Email: [email protected]