Categorization of English-language geophysical termconcepts
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The present article focuses on the ways of how to categorize English‐language geophysical terminological concepts to establish cognitive frames that underlie defining strategies. Close attention is paid to the various modes of categorisation of the concepts and to the substantiation of the content value of terms as their integral elements. Workflow stages include the semi‐automated screening for potentially possible definitions taken from the corpus of English‐based research, educational and general‐interest texts related to the field of geophysics, the empirical selection of examples, the identification of functional items and semantic labels used to set conceptual relations and categories. Results received by applying the frame approach clearly indicate the multi‐dimensional nature of concepts and main parameters, which influence the strategy of defining them. Namely, they are as follows: the category of a concept, its place in the domain system of a conceptual framework, its discursive, cognitive and communicative background. The above approach allows analysing and specifying the semantic aspects of terminological concepts and terms as their constitutive components by performing a more refined evaluation based on the text corpus via a software tool. The inter‐text comparison shows that definitions of terminological concepts depend on their contextual environment and indicate the degree of text specialization and professional register. The results of the study confirm the need for a further cross‐text analysis of conceptual structures as a crucial step to devise the databases featuring representative forms of the domain knowledge, thus facilitating international scientific communication and knowledge transfer.
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О. А. Брона
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