Metaphorization of Special Terms as the Semantic Development Process in Oil and Gas Discourse

Eponymous Technical Terms In English Special Terminology

“…The formal structure of eponyms and eponymous terms shows that they fully comply with traditionally accepted models of words and phrases of general language (Gorokhova, 2019;Gorokhova & Kubyshko, 2020;St-Pierre & Kar, 2005). The analysis of the structural characteristics of eponyms and eponymous terms allows to conclude that an eponymous unit is the initial part of the terminological structure and usually stands in preposition to the appellative.…”

“…This, most likely, testifies to the collaborative or simultaneous work of scientists whose merits were immortalized in a single term. The study makes it possible to come the national and cultural prototype becoming a kind of ethnolinguistic cultural marker (Gorokhova & Kubyshko, 2020;Kazarina, 1998;Vakhrameeva, 2003). The presence of a large number of eponymous units in the special terminology indicates that the individual is often at the center of all processes that occur in the language (Gorokhova & Kubyshko, 2020;Novinskaya, 2013;Pumpyansky, 1981).…”

“…However, a study of the English technical eponymous constructions of special terminology made it possible to identify the main thematic eponymous groups, demonstrated in Table 01, where eponyms and eponymous terms are used to denote certain concepts: Any terminology is characterized by correlation within a certain set of categories, i.e. a sequence of meanings (Gorokhova, 2019;Gorokhova & Kubyshko, 2020). The study of technical eponyms and eponymous terms allows to identify the main categories of concepts in which they exist.…”