PARADIGMATIC RELATIONS IN THE ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
PARADIGMATIC RELATIONS IN THE ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with paradigmatic relations in the English terminology of the biotechnology sphere. The aim of this work is to study such paradigmatic relations in biotechnological terminology as synonymy and antonymy. The author focuses on the generalization of theoretical views on the essence of the phenomena of synonymy and antonymy in terminology in general. Using the example of terminological units in the sphere of biotechnology, the features of the use of synonymous and antonymic units in English for the purpose of differential nomination of a fragment of the linguistic picture of the world are shown. The author identified and analyzed the main types of synonyms and antonyms and their structural features in the studied term system. Synonymy and antonymy are typical phenomena in terminology. The frequency of use of synonyms in the language is higher than that of antonyms. This testifies to the existing flexibility of terminology, which allows, in the case of synonymy, to interchange terms, in the case of antonymy, to structure concepts based on the opposition of their meanings. Both synonyms and antonyms in the terminology of the English language are characterized by sufficient consistency and orderliness.

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