НЕОЛОГИЗМИТЕ В СЪВРЕМЕННИЯ МЕДИЦИНСКИ ДИСКУРС
NEOLOGISMS IN MODERN MEDICAL DISCOURSE

Author(s): Nadezhda Nikolova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Philology
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: neologisms; lexical innovation; medical discourse
Summary/Abstract: Modern medical discourse reflects the dynamic changes into the Bulgarian speech fortunes. The global world directly reflected in the finest layer of medical terminology international neologiya, and also nominating new concepts and processes. Medical terminology is a layer of lexical fund with its specific features. In the modern stage development medical terms are widely colloquially used in the literary language, in healthcare, in medical practice. New technologies and dynamic economic processes are a prerequisite for the development of linguistic processes and events. Lexical innovation is a constant process, which evolve and enriches the language. Modern medical terminology over the past two decades is constantly filled with many new lexical resources as a result of the development of medical science. These are words and complex terms or phrases which are approved in a specific professional field. At the beginning of the XXI century English managed to become the dominant means of communication between people worldwide. This fact contributes to the entry of words with English origin in medical discourse. At this stage the medical neologiya is an open system of lexical-semantic relationships. Based on the structure of terms, the following basic terminology types are: single words-terms (ednoleksemes) and terms - phrases (polileksemes). In recent years as a result of which the speech is enriched with synonymous funds for communication purposes, there has been active using of new medical neologisms in modern medical discourse.

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