Selected Problems of International Terminology in Motor Science
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2007, Vol 17, Issue 37
Abstract
Authors present the language not as a passive tool of description, but as an active element of a science building system. The main task of science is accurate reproduction of reality by means of abstract, symbolic, immaterial items: words, being the means of presenting of theories and models. In such a system the quality of language determines to great extent the quality of science as a whole. It is possible to distinguish two types of language problems: intralingual and interlingual ones. The authors discuss parallel semantic and physical analysis of the notions: physical efficiency, endurance and exercise tolerance. They have shown that the notions under consideration make a coherent system, best illustrated by the phenomenon of supercompensation. The authors suggest logically coherent definitions of the above notions. They also present the language analysis of terms used in motor science – Polish and English ones – connected with the notion of force or strength (“static strength”, “dynamic strength”, “explosive strength”, “shear force”, “fast force”, and “endurance force”). They also prove the incoherency of the terms with basic rules of physics. They advocate the necessity of eliminating from the scientific terminology the terms clearly incoherent with basic rules of physics. They suggest two definitions of the term “force” used in motor science: as a physical quantity, and as a motor ability. They give an example of the logically incoherent motor performance pattern, often presented in American literature. Then they suggest how to improve the terminology.Finally the authors stress the opinion that in all physical culture sciences just the motor science is most vulnerable to incoherencies in terminology. The cause of it is the fact that its main task is creation of human behaviour models, which are made of words. Thus the need of working out the international encyclopaedic dictionary of motor science – as well as national dictionaries, consistent with it – seems to be necessary.
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Włodzimierz Starosta, Wacław Petryński
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