Conveners
Terminology, translation and interpretation in LSP
- Dace Liepiņa (University of Latvia)
- Laura Karpinska (University of Latvia)
Distance education has been existing for decades; however, it has become especially prominent in the process of education digitalisation, and its popularity boosted in the last two years. In the course of time, the implication of the term ‘distance education’ has been undergoing changes along with the technological developments in the sphere of education and the emergence of the Internet. As a...
English plays an increasingly important role in the advertising discourse globally. The frequent use of English in non-English advertising is often seen as symbolic in that it is designed to exert an emotional impact on the receiver of the ad, evoking a number of positive connotations that are believed to enhance the persuasiveness of advertising. According to this symbolic view, the literal...
The paper dwells on Latvian terminology of the 21st century. It is coined mostly on the basis of English counterparts. There are many sources of this new terminology: Latvian branch and domain experts, professional EU institutions’ Brussels and Luxembourg based translators and terminologists, professional Latvia based translators and terminologists. But numerous terms are coined by random...
The support of bilingual lexicographic resources is crucial in mastering legal terminology both in the target and source language. The present study has focused on bilingual Latvian-English and English-Latvian printed and online lexicographic resources accessible for all parties interested in acquiring legal terminology in both languages, in particular in the light of the new school reform...
