К вопросу о роли военной терминологической единицы в языке

Abstract

The article deals with the role of the military terminological language unit. The authors present different points of view on the nature, structure and research methodology of the term and give their own interpretation of the term as an object of study. While investigating linguistic phenomena, it is important to take into account the fact that language has epistemic and cognitive functions. Terminologists keep in mind the opposition between the word in the common language dictionary expressing the conventional meaning and the definition of the word in a special dictionary of professional terms. Terms are words included in a special dictionary (for example, diplomatic, military, natural-scientific, commercial, tech-nical, juridical, etc.) used in language for specific purposes by representatives of multivarious professional spheres. The article contains a detailed analysis of the peculiarities of the English military terminological system and stresses that the military sphere is in certain touch with all social aspects of our life: military terminological units can be found in special texts on military topics and in mass media texts, both in the speech of professional military persons and in the communication between specialists of other fields of knowledge in which the military terminological unit, still keeping its reference to the military paradigm, can be used as a component of the common national language. On the basis of the specificity of the ter-minological meaning, the authors of the article make a conclusion that the semantic volume of the military terminological language unit expands in the process of cognition. The paper also argues that the most typical model of term formation is represented in the military sphere by compounding.

В статье на материале английского языка рассматриваются особенности военной терминологической системы.