XII Interuniversity Scientific Conference of Students, Master’s and Postgraduate Students «Actual Problems of Ukrainian Lexicography: History, Current Status»

Actual problems of Ukrainian terminology

For the twelfth year in a row, our university traditionally organizes interuniversity scientific student conferences for the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language. This year it was dedicated to the 115th anniversary of our alma mater. The conference «Actual problems of Ukrainian lexicography: history, current state» brought together students of I-IV courses and master’s students from seven Ukrainian universities (Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Luhansk) and postgraduate students from Poland (Poznan) and Germany (Munich).

On November 3, the conference was opened by its founder and curator, associate professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies and ZMP Halyna Serhiyivna Onufrienko, with an inspiring speech about terminological culture in every profession, about the fact that dictionaries are the universe, the eternal companion of an educated person. It was this universe that was explored by the speakers at these «days of science».

During the plenary and three sectional meetings, the students confidently, lively, with the help of diagrams and tables, with many interesting examples, taught carefully prepared topics about the history of Ukrainian terminology, about industry terminological dictionaries (for doctors, miners, lawyers, translators, designers, mathematicians, journalists, economists, biologists, computer scientists, machine builders), about the peculiarities of the translation of terms, about outstanding lexicographers of the past and present. The largest number of speakers and listeners were from GF, GPF, FEU, RT, KNT.

Each of the speakers was asked questions by students and heads of sections. This created an atmosphere of joint intellectual work, creative discussion of current scientific problems. The experience gained by all participants during the conference is invaluable not only for first-year students who are just starting their scientific work, but also for senior students and even master’s students. In their feedback, the students noted as the most useful and interesting the reports of A. Konovalchuk (GP-213) on dictionaries of personal names, B. Belinskyi (ZDMU) on Ukrainian medical terminology, D. Kononenko (GF-313) on unique dictionaries of international term elements, D. Kolupaeva (ZNU) on dictionaries of terminology of exact sciences, A. Vovkostril (RT-813) on computer lexicography, K. Lemish (KNT-713) on computer dictionaries, V. Seredy (ZNU) on the problems of standardization of IT-technology terminology, K. Korotkova (GPF-124) on Ukrainian literary lexicography, U. Udovichenko (FEU-123) on the dictionary of B. Grinchenko, O. Sabaly (GPF-423) on dictionaries for journalists, N. Golubenko (Dnipropetrovsk) on multilingual legal dictionaries, A. Ivanova (FEU-513) on economic dictionaries, M. Chorny (ZDMU) on difficult cases of translation in medical terminology. Journalists of the Regional State Radio and Television Company interviewed the students and joined the discussion.

It was pleasant to feel at the conference thanks to the aesthetic design of the auditoriums where the meetings took place: students of the 3rd year of the GF decorated them with viburnum branches, sunflowers, their paintings with Ukrainian landscapes and still lifes. The students of GPF have prepared a photochronicle of the conference for the stand, where reports from Kryvyi Rih, Poland, and Germany are already posted.

Compared to last year, this conference impressed with a greater number of participants and speakers, a variety of topics, aesthetics of the auditoriums, a new exposition of Ukrainian dictionaries from the funds of the scientific library of ZNTU. The participants of the conference presented their reports at a high level, using informative material. And they managed to cover a wide range of various issues of modern Ukrainian lexicography.

So, both speakers and listeners understood that the conference is not only the result of serious, important and persistent joint work of students and their supervisors, but also a starting point for those who will plan research work on the professional Ukrainian language in the future. We thank the organizing committee of this large-scale conference, the teachers of the Ukrainian language for the acquired deep and thorough knowledge, for the invaluable time of scientific communication, communicative and public speaking experience, without which one cannot imagine any modern profession.

Ludmila Ivanikiv (GF-323), member of the working group of the organizing committee
Iryna Krashevska (GF-315)
Alina Nikitenko, member of the working group of the organizing committee,
head of the department of scientific work of students.

The conference through the eyes of its participants

I am sure that each of the participants of the conference felt proud of their native language, which is the basis of national unity, and this indicates that the goal of the conference has been fully achieved. (Yuliia Grunicheva, GPF-123, ZNTU)

I have been participating in the ZNTU conference for three years in a row, and every time I like the atmosphere of the plenary session. I express my sincere gratitude to the organizers of the conference. (Bohdan Belinsky, ZDMU)

Participation in the scientific conference was a new and extremely interesting experience for me, a freshman. It is wonderful that students have such an opportunity to exchange knowledge and opinions. (Iryna Krashevska, GF-315, ZNTU)

Thanks to such scientific activities, I get useful experience as a speaker. (Dmytro Kolupaev, ZNU)

The conference was effective, successful, and productive. (Ruslan Khalik, ZDMU)

The conference was held at a high level. Questions to the speakers were appropriate. (Alona Salo, ZNU)

Emotions from participation in the conference are positive, experience is priceless. (Andriy Pankov, ZDMU)

The conference showed that being able to communicate in the Ukrainian language is a very important thing for a representative of any profession, and especially for journalists. (Hanna Medvedeva, ZNTU)

I consider it an honor that I was able to take part in this scientific conference, and I will gladly take part next year as well. (V. Sereda, ZNU)

High professional level, interesting conference program, friendly, warm and creative atmosphere. (Tetyana Kucheruk, ZNTU)

Received a large supply of knowledge and a large number of questions for personal reflection! (Alina Gavrylenko, ZNTU)

It was a surprise to me that the world’s first encyclopedia on cybernetics was written in Ukrainian. I hope that we will be able to attend the next conference in 2016. (Ivan Korkhovy, GF-314, ZNTU)

The audience was active and directly participated in the conference. (Olexandra Alimpieva, GF-323, ZNTU)

The conference became a good source of useful information about the use of our native language in a professional format. (Yuliia Tytomir, GF-924, ZNTU)

The reports on section #1 were relevant, structured, clear and did not burden me with heavy information. (Tetyana Kudlai, GF-324, ZNTU)

The conference was instructive for me, a lawyer, I was impressed by the variety of sources used by the speakers and the high level of organization of the event. (Valentyn Melnikov, GPF-133, ZNTU)

Live reports, current material, speakers gave many examples. The law of effective communication (reception of visualization) is actively applied. (Mykyta Dmitriev, GF-313, ZNTU)

The reports provided a thirst for new knowledge. (Yuliia Snigur, GF-923, ZNTU)

The creative atmosphere at the conference, decorated elements in the Ukrainian style contributed to better assimilation of information, and the silence in the audience testified to the really useful and interesting material in the reports. (Sofiia Guzhva, GF-923, ZNTU).

The conference contributed to raising the national spirit and patriotism, the urge to study the native language more deeply. (Valeria Chepinoga, GPF-413, ZNTU)