TERMINOLOGY OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BY MEANS OF BINARY TEXTS: LINGUOCOGNITIVE AND TRANSLATION ASPECTS

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of cognitive and translational aspects of studying English and Ukrainian terminology of biomedical engineering. It is noted that the specialized language of such an interdisciplinary field as biomedical engineering contains concepts that concentrate specific knowledge of technical, medical and topically scientific experience. In cognitive linguistics, concepts are considered in connection with the background knowledge. The specialized language of biomedical engineering is presented as a cognitive-communicative organization of concepts, notions and related terms in such highly specialized fields as bioinstrumentation, biomedical cybernetics, biomechanics, system physiology, rehabilitation engineering, diagnosis of diseases and disorders, etc. It is argued that biomedical engineering is primarily focused on the latest advances in technology and medicine to develop new devices and equipment to improve human health. It is emphasized that the linguistic-cognitive analysis of binary specialized texts is a relevant method for compiling thematic highly specialized dictionaries, taking into account the relevance, intensive development of the researched modern field, as well as the fact that information from foreign sources in the theoretical aspect is not sufficiently represented in the Ukrainian translation. Translators should always take into account the following context criteria in the translation process: linguistic context, situational context and cognitive context. Based on the comparative analysis of binary texts – texts of the same genre and issue – the concept “sleep disturbance” is considered as a certain matrix of the terminological base of the concepts of the specified issue and basis for compiling highly specialized thematic mini-dictionaries. Keywords: biomedical engineering; specialized language; concept; term; translation; specialized terminology glossaries;binary texts.