LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FEATURE CATEGORY IN THE ENGLISH CLINICAL VETERINARY TERMINOLOGY
LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FEATURE CATEGORY IN THE ENGLISH CLINICAL VETERINARY TERMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of peculiarities of feature category in the clinical terminology of veterinary medicine and to identify a set of tools in English that are used to express this category. Conceptually and linguistically, the feature category in veterinary medicine is one of the most complex epistemological categories. This is due to the variety of concepts of veterinary science, the number of manifestations of pathological processes, the evolution of medical knowledge reflected in the semantics of terms, and the relative subjectivity of human thinking being able to create definitions of scientific concepts based on various analogies and personal associations. A number of universal categorical features are reflected in the studied terminology: temporal, spatial, color, causative, metric, etc. It is established that at the language level in the expression of the category “feature” various means are involved: specialized attributive vocabulary, syntactic constructions and terms created on the basis of metaphorical transference. The category of feature is widely used in clinical terminology of veterinary medicine, as it is one of the basic categories used to classify the concepts of veterinary medicine.

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