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SEMANTIC PROPERTIES OF TERMINOLOGICAL WORD GROUPS IN THE LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
Last modified: 2024-11-29
Abstract
At the outset, a language for special purposes is a form of language with a pronounced professional orientation. The question of the functioning of this type of language became most acute in the middle of the twentieth century, when the exchange of scientific and technical information spread to almost all countries. Obviously, we should agree with the opinion of N. Gvishiani, who states that “the growing needs of international scientific communication, generated by the increasing differentiation of scientific knowledge, have led to the necessary and quite natural recognition of the concept of “language for specific purposes” as opposed to “language in general” by scientists from different countries. The first European symposium on “language for special purposes”, that is, language used in various fields of human activity, such as medicine, law, education, etc., was held in Vienna in 1977 (Gvishiani, 2007). It should be noted that initially this term was assigned to one of the variants of English that served international scientific communication.
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