Problems of unification of the functioning of approved terms (based on textbooks, dictionaries and legislative documents)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the comparison of some terms used in school textbooks, terminological explanatory and industry dictionaries with the variants approved by the Republican Terminological Commission (hereinafter – the Term Committee), and their application in legislation, as well as the application of some terms approved by the Term Committee. As a result of the study, the following points were identified on the use of some terms in school textbooks: the variants of terms approved by the Term Committee were not used; the same term is given a different definition in each class; there are also long, incorrectly formed definitions that do not take into account the age of students; finally, one term is assigned a different definition. The following points have been identified on the use of certain terms in terminological explanatory and industry dictionaries: The Term Committee has approved different versions of the same term in different years; terms in several industry dictionaries have been translated in different versions; several doublet versions of the same term are found in dictionaries; some terms are not used in legislation; some terms are not approved by the Term Committee.