THE TERMINOSYSTEM OF THE SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS OF CHEMISTRY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA OF ANALYSIS

Eismont Nikita V.

The article reveals the actual problem of applying qualitative and quantitative analysis for the study of the terminological system of the scientific apparatus of chemistry. The research goal is to consider the main quantitative and qualitative criteria for a comparative analysis of the terminological system in the field of chemistry. 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: historiographic analysis of scientific literature on the research topic, corpus research, frequency analysis method, formal structural analysis method. The research materials were the English terminological system in the field of chemistry: a study was made of common and highly special chemistry terms in English. Based on the results, the author concluded: quantitative criteria make it possible to identify the frequency of terms of a certain semantic group; qualitative analysis criteria make it possible to analyze terms in the field of chemistry in terms of semantic fields. In a complex, qualitative and quantitative research in the field of terminology makes it possible to establish the frequency of the use of terms in a certain semantic field (in a terminological group).

Keywords:terminological group, applied linguistics, semantic field, corpus research, term system