COGNITIVE MODELING OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

Language is one of the most important cognitive structures, which is at the center of all human cognitive activity, as it concentrates and accumulates a wide range of scientific, worldview, everyday, behavioral and other knowledge. The importance of cognitive modeling of English-language terminology is determined by the use of professional terms and the formation of their content using a systematic scientific approach, which acquires special importance. After all, professional terminology is not only a conceptual and terminological means of transmitting information, but also a legal basis for decision-making and organization of executive actions. Basic terms have a social meaning and their incorrect use can negatively affect the quality of medical care. Conducting a study of English terminology in the direction of language modeling is conditioned by a new look at the term as a linguistic unit, with the help of which information about a special concept that is created and perceived by a person in the process of scientific and practical activity is encoded, stored, processed and decoded. Focusing research attention on the peculiarities of terminological nomination in various microsystems of English-language medical terminology provides grounds for structuring knowledge in a cognitive context. The article systematically presents English-language medical terminology, describes some semantic aspects of the functioning of terms, carries out a complex translation equalization of the medical vocabulary of English and Ukrainian languages, describes the common and distinctive features of incomplete translation counterparts at the lexical-semantic level, defines and outlines the boundaries of medical terminology, establishes lexical-semantic characteristics of English-language medical terminology, defines the nature of lexical-semantic relations within the term system (phenomena of polysemy, synonymy) and determines translational equivalents of terms.