On Romanian Technico-Scientific Terminology

With this paper, we shall debate on some general aspects which characterize the Romanian technico-scientific terminology. The study of terminology comprises several sciences: linguistics (regarding terminology as a variant of lexicology from which it adopts methods of analysis), logic, documentation, communication, sociology, informatics etc. Terminology is required to offer useful elements of analysis concerning the structure of terminologies, the relationship between name and the referential world, the controlled or corrected formation of neologisms, the terminological regularization, the spreading and the naturalization of terms. The formation of systems of terms in various fields of knowledge is in direct connection with the development of science, with the improvement of the system of scientific and technical notions. Another important issue related to the scientific terminology is the etymology of the words used internationally which are part of it. An important aspect that we are going to debate upon is the manner in which archaisms and regionalisms reflect in the present technico- scientific terminology. At the same time, we shall deal with the issue of defining scientific terms/concepts and the strategies.