CRIME INVESTIGATION AND PREVENTION (CRIMINALISTIC) TERMINOLOGY IN CROATIAN
Main researcher
: GAČIĆ, MILICA (99980) Assistants
ŠAKIĆ, ZORAN (172736)
DUJMOVIĆ, ZVONIMIR (172714)
Type of research: applied Duration from: 01/01/91. Papers on project (total): 12
Institution name: Policijska akademija - Visoka policijska škola, Zagreb (1036)
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Summary: Crime investigation and prevention (criminalistic)
terminology in Croatian language has not been standardized so far, which
often makes communication in that field difficult. The first stage of
the corpus compiling was choosing relevant and representative sources and
literature. Over a thousand pages of the text has been entered into a
computer. An abc-list for the first eight hundred pages has been prepared
and the researchers underlined the terms they consider to be
criminalistic. The coputer corpus was supplemented by excerpting terms
from the professional literature used in teaching these subjects. In the
second stage of the research, beside the abc-list of terms, the frequency
of the terms in corpus would be determined. That would enable compiling a
list of terms which would be used to make analysis of terms regarding
their use and their relationship with other words and terms in the corpus.
The third stage, which would be defining of the terms and determining
their content and range would enable compliling of a terminology
dictionary (or glossary) or terminology data bank. During that stage the
computer concordances of the corpus would be used, which would give
authentic cotext to determine the content and the range of a term. In the
final stage, the narrower and broader terms of a term could be determined
and in that way the needs of terminology description would be adequately
fulfilled.
Keywords: crime investigation and prevention (criminalistics), terminology, Croatian language, corpus, abc-list, frequency list, concordance, term, narrower term, broader term, definition
Research goals: Objectives of this research are to compile a
representative corpus of crime investigation and prevention
(criminalistic) texts in Croatian language which could be used as a basis
to define the content and range of the terms. This would enable the
standardization of the terms, and in its final stage could be used to
produce a dictionary (glossary) of Croatian criminalistic terminology or
to prepare a terminology data bank. The objectives could be summarized as
follows: 1. Establishing a stabilized terminology system in
criminalistics; 2. Description (definition) of entries in a specialized
dictionary (glossary) of criminalistics; 3. Finding out synonyms in
the world languages (English, French and German).
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
Name
: Kontrastivni pristup terminologiji u svjetskim jezicima Type of achievement: Teaching aids and educatio Authors: Gačić, M. Other information about the project.