The Georgian Press in the Second Half of the 19th Century on Georgian Terminology Work

Abstract

The national liberation movement against the policy of Russification became more active in the second half of the 19th century. Against this backdrop, the literary language captured the attention of progressive society, particularly such landmark issues as standardization of the literary language, defining the style of orientation and the attitude towards foreign words, and so on. In the given conditions of strict censorship of anti-state politics, these topics could only be discussed in those Georgian periodicals that had undertaken the responsibility of saving, preserving and developing the literary language.

For the first time there appeared on the pages of the Georgian newspapers the principles for determining the exact correspondences for scientific concepts, which had to be studied in two main directions:

1. The object itself with its internal and external characteristics;
2. Literary language with its dialectal, archaic and modern subsystems.

There is no doubt that the periodical publications of the second half of the 19th century are important sources for the history of the creation of the Georgian scientific language. Judging from the topics covered in these publications, the course that they envisaged, on one hand, developed the methodology of the term creation process and, on the other hand, had an influence on the accuracy of speech in society. Thus, these publications are still relevant today and indicate the correct orientation for modern scientific and popular publications.