MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AS A PART OF THE MATRIX OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE (IN VIEW OF ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN ACADEMIC LANGUAGES)

С. Й. Танева

doi:10.26435/uc.v0i3(36).615

С. Й. Танева Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26435/uc.v0i3(36).615

Abstract

The article discusses medical terminology and its contemporary developmental perspectives in English and Bulgarian academic languages based on extensive illustrative material. The research focus is on the following active term-forming processes: lexico-semantic, lexico-morphological, lexico-syntactic, word borrowing and related linguistic phenomena - specialization, metaphorization, metonymization, affixation, composition, formation of medical terms-word combinations, direct translation, free translation, introduction of English medical terminology into Bulgarian, etc. Multidimensionality of medical terminology base in terms of cognitive, linguistic, socio-communicative and pedagogical aspects has been proved. The basic postulates of the last three modern theories of terminology are summarized.

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