On October 27, as part of the weekly educational lecture series, a public lecture entitled “The Contemporary Digital Age and Georgian Linguistic Heritage” was held at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary. The lecture was delivered by Lia Karosanidze, PhD in Philological Sciences, Head of the Department of Translation Dictionaries and Scientific Terminology at the Arnorld Chikobava Institute of Linguistic of the Tbilisi State University, and a member of the institute’s Academic Council, the author and editor of the concept of digital resource – “Georgian Terminological Bank”.
Her main research interests include Byzantine-Georgian linguistic relations, the history of Georgian grammatical thought and contemporary terminological policy. Dr. Karosanidze conducted research on the material of the history of Georgian ecclesiastical terminology in collaboration with Metropolitan Andria (Gvazava) of Gori and Ateni, and Byzantinist Neli Makharadze. The findings of the research have been published in the volume Materials for the History of Georgian Ecclesiastical Terminology.
The lecture addressed issues of the preservation, systematization and development of Georgian linguistic heritage and ecclesiastical and scientific terminology. It also addressed the role of the Georgian terminological bank in language standardization, as well as the inclusion and processing of ecclesiastical and theological terms in a unified national digital database.
The lecture was attended by the professors, instructors and students of the Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary.
