Topical issues of legal terminology in the Kazakh language were discussed

On May 2, 2024, the Republican methodological seminar "Legal terminology: classification, unification and translation" was held, where issues of systematization of legal terms, ordering of legislative documents in accordance with the norms of the Kazakh language were discussed. The seminar was organized by the Committee of Language Policy and the National Scientific and Practical Center “Til-Kazyna” named after Shaysultan Shayakhmetov of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Head of State, K.K. Tokayev, putting forward the principle of "Law and order", stressed that respect for the law should be extolled as one of the qualities of a conscientious citizen.
In order to form a respectful attitude of Kazakhstanis to their own laws, first of all, it is necessary that legislative documents be competently written in the state language and have clear practical significance.
Opening the seminar, Chairman of the Language Policy Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerbol Tleshov
He noted that systematic work is underway in the republic to improve industry terms in legislative documents and the formation of the legal Kazakh language.
"The methodological seminar, which aims to review the norms, rules and provisions of laws in the state language, involves not only discussing the issues of competent preparation of legislative documents in the Kazakh language, but also identifying the causes and consequences arising from them, as well as finding ways to resolve the issue in accordance with the requests of society," the head of the Committee said.
Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Law, Unzila Shapak, speaking at the seminar, focused on the urgent problems of organizing and developing draft laws in the Kazakh language.
Vice-President for Science of the International Society "Kazakh Tili", Doctor of Philology, Academician Sherubai Kurmanbayuly touched upon the issues of unification and streamlining of industry terms. "There are two main problems in legal terminology. The first is the complexity and misunderstanding of the legal language. The second is the different use of the same term. The use of doublet terms is common in laws and various documents. Therefore, first of all, draft laws should be developed in the official language. Secondly, the ordering of terms should be carried out at a professional level and have an approved normative dictionary of industry terms common to all specialists. This is the only way the legal language will return to normal," he said.
Associate Professor of the Department of Turkology and Language Theory of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Doctor of Philology Karlygash Aidarbek in her report presented an analysis of various scientific points of view, focused on the classification of legal terminology and translation problems.
Associate Professor of the Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies at the Prosecutor General's Office, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Bauyrzhan Yessimseitov made a report on the texts of criminal legislation, and assistant Professor at MNU University, Candidate of Law, PhD Almas Zhumagali - applied and theoretical aspects of the development of legal terminology, analysis of the fundamentals of the development of industry terminology.
Also at the event, senior lecturer of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Candidate of Law Kazybek Dautaliev, leading researcher at the Center for Linguistics of the Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aigul Makhambetova and others made presentations.
In addition, at the seminar, linguists and lawyers discussed the problem of systematization of terms used in dictionaries of the legal field, and proposed to analyze the terms of this field, previously approved by the Republican Terminology Commission.