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.
Authors and Affiliations
О. А. Брона
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP497644
- DOI -
- Views 75
- Downloads 0
English phraseologisms with culinary component in modern ethnoaxiology.
The article studies the ethnoaxiological direction of investigating phraseologisms with a culinary component in the Modern English language. The article researches the value picture of the world of the English linguo-cul...
Main features and requirements to the terminology of cosmetology and aesthetic medicine.
The article deals with the analysis of development of the fields of cosmetology and aesthetic medicine and formation of its terminology system. The aim of this study is grounded analysis of the theoretical material on th...
BIBLICAL CASE MOTIVATED LINGUISTIC UNITS IN VERNACULAR LANGUAGE OF THE XIX C
The article deals with the Biblical case motivated linguistic units in diachronic perspective. The motivation is understood as the possibility of interpreting the mental image as the image where the nominative unit is us...
„Sending out” the disease: imperative constructions of Ukrainian, English and French medical incantations.
The article examines the texts of Ukrainian, English and French medical incantations. The dominant structure basic components of the imperative constructions in incantations which are available in all three languages are...
FUNCTIONS OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN SCHOLARLY-CRITICAL DISCOURSE
The article analyzes the functions of interrogative sentences in the scientific-critical discourse on the material of David Lodge's works. The groups of syntactic structures as a rhetorical question and a hypophora were...