OBSERVATIONS ON SOCIAL-POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY IN NICOLAE BĂLCESCU’S WORK
OBSERVATIONS ON SOCIAL-POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY IN NICOLAE BĂLCESCU’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: The first decades of the 19th century are characterized both by the unification and modernization of the literary Romanian language and by the enrichment of the lexicon with words from Romance languages. The explosive development of science and technology in the modern era, the growth of inter-cultural exchanges and the accumulation of knowledge in various special fields led to the emergence and development of Romanian scientific terminology. Bălcescu participated in the process of creating, enriching and perfecting specialist terminology in several fields of science: socio-politics, history, religion, economics, by introducing into his writings a large number of terms borrowed from Latin-Romance languages, but also by creating new words, through the process of linguistic calque. In order to contribute to the understanding and understanding of certain specialist terms, the writer resorted to glossing them, explaining them in periphrases or familiar words. In the process of specialising terms, some words change their meaning and become fixed in socio-political terminology with the meaning they will retain to this day. Thus, 'elect' evolves from the meaning 'to accept' to today's meaning - 'to designate by vote'. Through his constant activity and the variety of topics he dealt with, it can be said that Nicolae Bălcescu contributed to the evolution of socio-political terminology in Romanian.

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