Structural-semantic analysis of phototerminology

Kondratieva Olga A.

The paper introduces semantic topoi of phototerminology through its structural components. Semantic groups of temporality, locality, negation, intensification of qualities, reduction of qualities are shown to contain structures composed of classical elements, morphemes of Latin and Greek origin, both in English and Russian. Further research field is outlined as defining specific for photography semantic topoi: exposure, kinds of photography work and diditalisation of photographic processes. The paper draws some preconditions for archaic phototerminology to appear in response to nonlinguistic domain progression.

Keywords:terminological semantics, classical elements, structural-semantic analysis, phototerminology