COGNITIVE TERMINOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AS A UNIT OF THE PROFESSIONAL WORLDVIEW

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of obtaining, processing, storing and transferring professional information with the help of language means and the formation of a system of professional knowledge. The paper substantiates the term ‘cognitive terminological structure’ proposed by the authors to denote a unit of professional consciousness, in which a fragment of the professional worldview is concentrated and which is verbalized through terms. The formation of such a cognitive unit is the speaker’s reaction and reflection to the phenomena of the scientific world. Understanding of these phenomena is formed in the mind with the acquisition of knowledge about them, and ideas about them are continuously transformed by added professional and relevant information, are stored in professional memory and verbalized in the form of a term. Terminological units are associated with the cognitive terminological structures they verbalize. Such cognitive terminological structures are clumps of information stored in the memory of a professional metalanguage user. From the linguo-cognitive point of view the authors offer to understand the term as a word or phrase, representing a fragment of the professional worldview through the verbalization of the cognitive terminological structure within a certain scientific / professional discourse.