COGNITIVE APPROACH TO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF TERMINOLOGY

The article highlights the main theories of modern terminology (including the theory of sociocognitive terminology, the theory of frame analysis, communicative theory of “doors”), developed on the basis the principles of linguocognitivism. The theories discussed in the article provide a deeper understanding of the nature of the term, as they take into account the relationship between the prototype categorization implemented in the world view and the actualization of the term as a sign of a special concept in professional communication. At the same time, the specifics of the cognitive approach to the analysis of terminology gives an extended understanding of its functions, in particular the communicative function, and its place in human mental activity. It is noted that the theory of sociocognitive terminology applies sociolinguistic principles to the theory of terminology and takes into account terminological variations by determining variants of terms against the background of different contexts of their usage. According to the theory of frame analysis of terminology, it is argued that attempts to distinguish between terms and common words are no longer fruitful or even viable, and that the best way to research into special units of knowledge is to study their behavior in multidisciplinary texts. It is emphasized that the frame is the minimum unit exploited to characterize any object in the surrounding world. The study of frame-based terminology focuses: firstly, on conceptual organization; secondly, on the multidimensionality of terminological units; thirdly, on the extraction of semantic as well as certain syntactic information through multilingual corpora. In the study of frame-based terminology, conceptual networks are built on the main events of the subject area, which generates patterns for actions and processes occurring in this area, as well as objects involved in these actions and processes, and types of information of this industry. Keywords: cognitive approach; term; theory of sociocognitive terminology; theory of frame analysis of terms; communicative theory of terminology; prototype theory; domain; frame; specialized language.