A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF CHEMISTRY TERMS IN THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

Eismont Nikita V.

The article reveals the actual problem of implementing a structural approach to comparative cross-linguistic research from the point of chemistry terms. The research goal is to highlight the main theoretical and methodological foundations of the structural approach to the study of chemistry terms in English and Russian. The research methodology is based on a structural approach and includes the methods of the general scientific group (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction), as well as a number of special methods: comparative analysis, corpus research, the method of formal structural analysis. The research materials were the term systems in the field of chemistry in English and Russian. With structural analysis, a study of commonly used and highly specialized terms in the field of chemistry was carried out. Based on empirical results, the author concluded the following: a structural approach to the terminology in the field of chemistry makes it possible to classify term systems based on general criteria - according to the structural term composition (one-part, two-part, three-part and multi-part terms); according to the criterion of the general semantic field.

Keywords:structural approach, applied linguistics, semantic field, corpus research, term system