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Terminology and Administration, the Catalan
experience
Rosa Colomer Artigas Director of
TERMCAT Brussels, 1 December 2005
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Coordination centre for terminological work in
the Catalan language
Coordination centre for terminological work in
the Catalan language
1985 TERMCAT is founded 1994 TERMCAT becomes a
consortium
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The Catalan language
The Catalan language
68,000 km2
11,380,000 inhabitants
7,500,000 speakers
10,000,000 people understand it
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TERMCAT goals
TERMCAT goals

• Coordinating and planning terminological research
  in Catalan
• Developing terminological resources to encourage
  the use of Catalan in the socioeconomic,
  technical and scientific fields
• Establishing terminological criteria for the
  development of terminological resources
• Organising a review of Catalan terms and managing
  the standardisation of neologisms according to
  the standard codification of the general language
• Making terminological information and resources
  available to society
• Promoting the development of language technology
  tools to ensure greater efficiency in language
  handling
• Establishing relations for cooperation with
  organisations both in Catalan-speaking areas and
  internationally

TERMCAT
TERMCAT
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TERMCAT activities
TERMCAT activities
Development of terminological resources Terminolog
ical standardisation Advisory services
TERMCAT
TERMCAT
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The Catalan Government
The Catalan Government

• As a nationality and to achieve self-government,
  Catalonia was constituted as an Autonomous
  Community in 1978, in accordance with the Spanish
  Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy, which
  is the basic institutional regulation.
• The Generalitat is the institution in which the
  self-government of Catalonia is organised. It
  consists of the Parliament, the president of the
  Generalitat and the Executive or Governing
  Council.

Generalitat de Catalunya
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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The Catalan Government
The Catalan Government

• Competences
• (exclusive or shared with the central government)
• Organisation of its self-government institutions
• Catalan civil law
• Education, culture and research
• Historical, artistic and architectural heritage
• Public safety
• Territorial and town-planning
• Tourism
• Public works that only affect Catalonia
• Transport, ports and airports
• Social services
• Sport
• Statistics
• Etc.

Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Language policy
Language policy

• Spheres of action
• Promoting the use of Catalan
• Communication resources
• Language learning and induction
• Certification and assessment of knowledge of the
  Catalan language
• Sociolinguistic research
• Departmental coordination
• Language guarantee offices

Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de la
Presidència Secretaria de Política Lingüística
To promote the deployment of the language
legislation derived from Article 3 of the Statute
of Autonomy and guarantee the application of the
language policy established by the Government
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Interdepartmental coordination
Interdepartmental coordination

• 1981-1986 Administrative Language Coordinating
  Committee
• 1986-2001 Administrative Language Advisory
  Committee
• CALA has made studies and proposals on the
  following issues
• model documents
• writing criteria
• terminology
• phraseology
• protocol forms of address
• translation criteria
• abbreviations
• upper and lower case letters

Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de la
Presidència Secretaria de Política Lingüística
Administrative Language Advisory Committee (CALA)
Administrative Language Advisory Committee (CALA)
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Interdepartmental coordination
Interdepartmental coordination

• Linguists and planning technicians assigned to
  each department prepare materials, correct texts,
  make training proposals, take part in actions to
  promote the use of the language, etc.

Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de la
Presidència Secretaria de Política Lingüística

• The Language Policy Technical Network is the body
  in charge of the application and coordination of
  language policy actions in the different
  departments of the Catalan Government.

Language Policy Technical Network
Language Policy Technical Network
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Territorial coordination
Territorial coordination
Territorial organ for the application of the
Catalan Government Language Policy
Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de la
Presidència Secretaria de Política Lingüística

• The Consortium is made up of the Catalan
  Government, 81 town councils, 37 district
  councils and the Girona, Lleida and Tarragona
  provincial councils.
• The aim of the Consortium is to spread the
  knowledge and use of Catalan in all spheres.
• A network of 22 language standardisation centres
  services the whole territory, with over 130
  service points and more than 400 expert
  professionals.

Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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An example of establishing nomenclatures
An example of establishing nomenclatures
The Catalan Toponymy Committee provides advice,
consultation and proposals for setting the
official toponyms of Catalonia.

• Institute of Catalan Studies
• Catalan Towns and Districts Association
• Consortium for Language Standardisation
• Catalan Cartographic Institute
• Catalan Towns Foundation
• Vall dAran General Council

Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Social legitimacy
Social legitimacy
Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de la
Presidència Secretaria de Política Lingüística
The Catalan Language Social Council is an
advisory, consultative and social participation
body in the Catalan Government language policy To
assess the aims and results of the Catalan
Government language policy and, in particular,
the annual language policy report. To study and
analyse, as instructed by the Government, the
issues related to fostering and promoting the
Catalan language in all spheres of society. To
pronounce on the projects for language planning
instruments that have to be approved by the
Government. To propose to the Government the
drafting of studies and pronouncements and the
adoption of measures appropriate to the general
goals of the language policy law.
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Training and development
Training and development

• The purpose of the Catalan Public Administration
  School is to improve and innovate the public
  administrations through training and research in
  public management, in order to promote shared
  public service culture and values.
• Lines of work in administrative language
• publications
• model documents
• language training for civil servants
• research

Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de
Governació i Administracions Públiques
Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Academic legitimacy
Academic legitimacy

• Support for the Institute of Catalan Studies
  (IEC)
• (academy of the Catalan language)
• This is an academic, scientific and cultural
  corporation whose purpose is advanced scientific
  research, mainly into all elements of Catalan
  culture.
• The IEC is in charge of studies of the language,
  sets standards and sees that the process of
  standardisation of Catalan is coherent throughout
  its sphere.

Language and Administration
Language and Administration
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Coordination of terminological activities
Coordination of terminological activities

• General coordination of terminological activities
  related to the Catalan language
• TERMCAT provides advice and cooperation for the
  administration
• Preparation of glossaries and terminological
  materials
• Standardisation of the terminology of the
  administration
• Advice on the preparation of nomenclatures and
  official classifications

Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Development of language models
Development of language models

• Preparation of materials for administrative
  language in general
• Since the return of democracy, the Catalan
  Government has encouraged the creation of
  materials of all kinds to help with the use of
  administrative language.
• In some cases it has been possible to start from
  the legacy of the administrative language of the
  Kingdom of Catalonia and Aragón (15th-16th
  centuries), which has been modernised and now
  fully meets all the present needs of the
  administration.

Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Development of language models
Development of language models
Preparation of materials for administrative
language in general TERMCAT has contributed
articles to specialised journals and taken part
in establishing criteria.
Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Development of terminologies
Development of terminologies
Preparation of terminological materials related
to administrative languageTERMCAT has prepared
or helped to prepare a whole set of dictionaries
and terminological materials of interest to the
administration.
Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Permanent advice nomenclatures
Permanent advice nomenclatures
Permanent priority advice for the
administration TERMCAT provides terminological
advice for the technicians who work in the
different departments of the administration. One
of the main lines of advice is concerned with the
preparation of statistical nomenclatures and
classifications (in cooperation with Idescat,
Catalan Institute of Statistics).
Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Permanent advice regulations and official
bulletins
Permanent advice regulations and official
bulletins
Permanent priority advice for the
administration TERMCAT provides terminological
advice for the technicians who work in the
different departments of the administration. It
also advises the people responsible for language
in the official publications containing the laws
and other legal provisions (Diari Oficial de la
Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalan version of
the Boletín Oficial del Estado), etc.
Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Permanent advice laws
Permanent advice laws
TERMCAT provides terminological advice for the
Catalan Parliament, to obtain the most suitable
use of terminology in the drafting of laws and
provisions. Some of the neologisms standardised
by TERMCAT respond to requests related to the
drafting of new legal provisions.
Terminology and Administration
Terminology and Administration
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Standardisation of administrative terminology
Standardisation of administrative terminology
TERMCAT, through the Supervisory Council,
standardises neologisms in the administrative
sphere (loan words, new conceptual realities,
etc.) The use of this standardised terminology is
mandatory in the Catalan administration.
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TERMCAT, lines for the future
TERMCAT, lines for the future

• Maintaining the activity described
• Translating the UNE/ISO terminology standards
  into Catalan (agreement with AENOR, Spanish
  Standardisation and Certification Association)
• Boosting international cooperation

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