FORMAL VARIATION IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN LOGISTICS TERMINOLOGY
FORMAL VARIATION IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN LOGISTICS TERMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: This paper reflects on logistics terminology and the phenomenon formal variation which is treated controversially by various scholars. The analysis and conclusions are part of a detailed exploration into the English and Bulgarian logistics terminological systems. The methods applied are a comparative approach implemented on the basis of the principles of synchronicity and systematicity when relating English terms to their Bulgarian equivalents and a semantic-syntactic method when revealing the relations between components in noun compounds and phrases with a component analysis of their semantic structure. Based on the examples included in the corpus developed especially for the study, the paper offers a typology of formal variation determined by the level of manifestation into phonetic and orthographic, morphological, syntactic, word formation, lexical and stylistic variants, syntactic and lexical variants being most recurrent. The findings can be relevant when teaching English for Logistics.

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