RESEARCH OF TERMINOLOGICAL LEXIS WITH IN MOTIVATION ASPECT

Abstract

The article defines the classification parameters of the notion of motivation (motivatedness) applied for terminological research and develops the methodological principles of motivational studies of terminological vocabulary. Motivation is understood as a feature of a word, which allows us to realize the conditionality of the connection meaning (content) and the sound shell of the word (expression) on the basis of the correlation of the word with the linguistic, extra-linguistic reality, and mental categories. We can differentiate lexical and structural (word-building) motivation; full and partial; absolute and relative; phonetic, semantic, analytic; propositional-dictumatic (hyperonymic, hyponymic, categorical, predicate-argumentative varieties), modular motivation, associative-terminal (structural-metaphorical, metaphorical-diffusive, gestalt or figurative types), conceptual-integrative and mixed motivation. Basic methodological principles of motivational research of terminological vocabulary are: rational correlation of concrete and borrowed choice of motivator (onomasiological base); anthropocentrism; textcentrism; determinism; mentality; informativity; axiologicality; referentiality; dynamism; typology; synchronism. The motivational aspect of terminological vocabulary research requires a specially designed methodology, based on both classical and innovative methods and techniques. In the motivational studies, the main method is descriptive (if necessary, comparative descriptive). Analysis of the semantic structure of terminology involves the use of elements of the structural method, in particular component analysis. Research of terminological units in the functional aspect leads to the use of separate methods of contextual analysis; addressing the problems associated with mental categories, necessitates the use of methods and techniques of conceptual analysis. Methods of motivational, morphemic, word-formation, etymological analysis, as well as quantitative calculations and introspection are used. The choice of certain methods and techniques of motivational research of the terminological vocabulary is differentiated within the framework of semasiological and onomasiological approaches.