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The Minister of Culture and Sports Slvia Riva together with the Head of the Language Policy Service Marta Pujol presented this Tuesday the study Use of Catalan terminology in Andorra characterization and analysis in the field of winter sports. The work which has been explained electronically by the same authors Amor Montan and Carolina Bastida carries out research on the vocabulary and expressions of the sports field which is so important for Andorra.A few years ago the project obtained research aid from Ldia Armengol Vila awarded by the Language Policy Service and the publication of the study can be consulted online on the culture website . The authors have explained the objectives methodology and conclusions of their study focusing on the analysis of an oral and written corpus of both the most technical or specific field federations and sports clubs ski resorts specialized trade as well as in the field of dissemination media.The authors group the terms into cases and analyze their documentation and degree of implementation. For example the avalanche victim search device case contains three different terms that refer to it avalanche victim search device with a low degree of implementation arva with a low degree of implantation and DVA with a high degree of implantation. Or the case of downhill skiing includes the documented terms downhill skiing hiking skiing cross-country skiing cross-country skiing hiking hiking skiMo and skimo all referred to the same sport and the form mountain skiing is the which has a higher degree of implantation. In total the authors have analyzed nearly 1000 terms that have been grouped into 580 cases. The results of the study show that 66.8 of the words studied use the terminology of Catalan while 33.2 of the cases analyzed are mostly borrowed terms usually English.The Minister of Culture and Sports pointed out that Bastida i Montans research work is already being applied to update the online dictionaries and vocabularies of the Catalan Terminology Center TERMCAT within the framework of the agreement between this body and the Ministry. . Precisely the director of TERMCAT Jordi Bover i Salvad and other members of the Center for Catalan Terminology attended the presentation as well as Miquel Nicolau rector of the University of Andorra M. Teresa Cabr president of the Philological Section of the Institut dEstudis Catalans or Merc Lorente principal investigator of the IULATERM research group.
