Statybos liaudies ir mokslo terminijos bendrybės ir skirtybės
Similarities and differences of folk and scientific terminology of building

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with similarities and differences between folk and scientific terminology of building. Folk and scientific terms are functional and semantic types of words, both are a nomenclative reflection of condensed information. Folk terminology is treated as an important source of scientific terminology and scientific terminology uses folk terminology for the needs of a naming system. Folk terms are incorporated into scientific terminology with revised, expanded, narrowed or figurative meanings. Some folk terms cannot be used for scientific concepts. Scientific terms have strict requirements of precision, monosemy, correctness, systematicality, stylistic neutrality, logicality. In folk terminology synonymy, polysemy and figurativeness are regular phenomena, which show the semantic flexibility of language. Scientific terms are created as units of a scientific concept system and they are defined by the specialists of the particular knowledge field. Terminological field is a systemic unified classification structure which comprises terms of a particular field. Folk terminology reflects the world view of a nation and names special concepts without relation to a concept system. In scientific terminology correspondence of concepts and terms is claimed. In folk terminology nomination of terms is a matter of choice. Due to various factors of common language and usage scientific terms can show the resemblance to folk terms and develop synonymy, polysemy and figurativeness.

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