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TERMINOLOGICAL SYNONYMY OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH DAMBUILDING TERMS

TERMINOLOGICAL SYNONYMY OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH DAMBUILDING TERMS


Author:  Anastasia G. Shirokolobova

Affiliation:  Kuzbass State Technical University

Abstract: 
The purpose of this article is to examine the question of terminological synonyms on the dam-building terms in the English and Russian languages. We consider terminological synonymy to be a unique mental-linguistic phenomenon, reflecting cognitive-categorized features of cognitive-linguistic human activity.
The subject of the study is cognitive comparative analysis of Russian and English synonymous term of "Tailings dams" term system. The empirical base of the study was Russian and English termi-nological card file of the term system "Tailings dams" in the amount of 920 units (460 each).
The research method is complex. As the main method is comparative, for solution of specific problems there were used a set of other methods: the structural and semantic, nominative, component, and quantitative analysis.
Synonymy in terminology can be considered as a positive fact, indicating the development of scientific thinking and formulation in other words of newly discovered sides of reality. In Russian and English term system "Tailings dams" there are only 20 synonymous units, this can be explained by the fact of considerable terminological systems formedness. Synonymic row analysis showed that the num-ber of synonymous terms in a row varies from two to three. For example, in the Russian term system: dam-bund-embankment; fill-dump, in English: dam–dike/dyke–bund; pipe–tube. These examples under-line that synonyms are used to detail and clarify certain aspects of the basic notion, highlighting some features of a phenomenon, which are not represented by another linguistic form. The equal number of synonymous terms in Russian and English terminological systems proves that the sphere of concepts, being partially reflected in the language by means of terms, demonstrates the scientific worldview.

Keywords:  term system, synonymy, cognitive aspect, term nomination

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Pages:  127-131

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