IT LEXICON – FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY
IT LEXICON – FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY

Summary/Abstract: Currently, when from a common good the computer has become an essential tool, IT terminology proves to be a branch that requires solid research, in order to constantly improve the online service quality. Settled, just like ecology, at the border of several sciences, computer terminology has, in its turn, a trans- and interdisciplinary applicability, as it provides support for many fields. Characterized by a large number of borrowings that come from English language and are most often rendered by transliteration, the IT lexicon does not limit itself to such words and collocations, but also includes slang, which endows it with new meanings and nuances. Besides that, given the preset time and space framing (especially when taking into account the speed of information dissemination) computer terminology also requires a specific structure (much like that of scientific texts), but which is „contaminated” with colloquial words and idioms and has quite an intense derivational and semantic dynamics. Therefore, а proper analysis of Internet vocabulary compels us to address a wide range of issues, including not only the abovementioned ones, but also the issue of machine translation’s usefulness and correctness.

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