Authors’ names:
Andrey G. Fomin, Anastasiya V. Andreyashina – Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia
Abstract:
The article presents the results of a study whose primary goal was to identify the peculiar features of formation of English terms in the terminology field “Powerplants in the Aircraft Industry.” The achievement of this goal involved the use of the following research methods: the method of word-formation analysis, which allows to identify most common methods of term formation; the method of structural analysis, which allows to determine the types of terms by the number of components; the method of structural-morphemic analysis, which makes it possible to identify models of term formation; the method of morphological analysis, which classifies methods of term formation on the basis of grammar. The study of term formation is directly related to the analysis of the forms of term components, which allows us to identify productive ways and models of formation of terminological units. The analysis of the structure of terms within the terminological field “Powerplants in the Aircraft Industry” allowed us to distinguish word-terms (single-word terms, monolexemes) and phrase-terms (multi-word terms, polylexemes). Monolexeme terms include linguistic units represented by one word. Monolexeme terms include root, affixal, and compound units. Polylexeme terms include two-, three- and four-component terms, which include mainly nouns and adjectives; other parts of speech are less frequent. Nouns are prominent in the composition of polylexeme terms since in the terminology field in question terms often denote entities that are perceived as concrete objects. The occurrence of adjectives in the composition of polylexeme terms can be explained by the fact that they most accurately reveal the relationship between the object defined and its specific feature. The paper identifies the syntactic way of forming English terms as the most productive; it produces two-component and multi-component terms, motivated by the desire to describe objects with accuracy as well as to eliminate ambiguity of terms. In the term field in question, among two-, three- and four-component term units, two-component terms are most frequently used, since an increase in the number of components in terms leads to inconvenience in their use due to bulkiness. In addition, two-component terms are the most optimal type of polylexeme terms due to their semantic capacity.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2023-62-2-171-190 |
| Downloads | 273 |
| Key words | term; terminology field; monolexeme terms; polylexeme terms; two-component terms; multi-component terms. |