Structural and derivational features of terms in business sphere (based on the English language)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5075-2025-3-71-81
Abstract
Aim is to analyse the formation and structural features of terms and identify the most productive methods of term formation in business terminology on the material of the English language.
Methodology. Business English terms selected from special manuals, professional textbooks and dictionaries were analysed. The main research methods were the descriptive method, the systematization method, as well as the methods of structural and component analysis.
Results. The vocabulary of the business sphere is considered as a complex terminological construct, which consists of the general usage lexis, general industry and special professional vocabulary, and interdisciplinary terms. Structural features and derivational models of the terms under study are analyzed. The main affixes are identified, and the morphological means are systematized according to the conceptual blocks of the business sphere. The percentage of terminological units formed by the syntactic method, as well as by the method of affixation, abbreviation, compounding, conversion and other methods was established, which made it possible to determine the most productive ones in the business sphere.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the development of terminology as a scientific field and can also be used in the lectures on lexicology, terminology and textbooks on the theory and practice of business communication in English
About the Author
E. N. Skhalyakho
Adyghe State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena N. Skhalyakho – Сand. Sci. (Philology), Assoc. Prof., Department of English Philology
References
1. Grinev-Grinevich, S.V. (2008). Terminology. Moscow: Academy publ. (in Russ.).
2. Nazarova, T.B. (2014). Dynamic processes in business English vocabulary. In: Scientific notes of Orel State University. Series “Humanities and social sciences”, 1 (57), 271–275 (in Russ.).
3. Madinyan, E.I. (2022). Means of constructing terminological neologisms in English for business communication. In: Bulletin of the Moscow Region State University. Series: Linguistics, 5, 48–58. DOI: 10.18384/2310-712X-2022-5-48-58 (in Russ.).
4. Karasik, V.I. (2002). Language circle: personality, concepts, discourse. Volgograd: Peremena publ. (in Russ.).
5. Buyanova, L.Yu. (2013). Cognitive-semiotic derivation as a mechanism of formation and evolution of modern financial economic sphere of terms. In: Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University, 31 (322), 19–22 (in Russ.).
6. Salamatina, Yu.V. (2020). Methods of term formation in English. In: The Humanities and social sciences, 1, 162–169. DOI: 10.18522/2070-1403-2018-66-1-162-169 (in Russ.).
7. Slepneva, M.A. (2020). Affixal method of terms formation in electronics. In: Baltic Humanitarian Journal, 4 (33), 320–323. DOI: 10.26140/bgz3-2020-0904-0082 (in Russ.).
8. Malinovskaia, T.N. (2023). Multicomponent English-language sociopolitical terms: structural features and basic syntactic models (based on the English-Russian dictionary of terms to the European convention on human rights). In: The world of science, culture and education, 5 (102), 364–366. DOI: 10.24412/1991-5497-2023-5102-364-366 (in Russ.).
9. Koroleva, M.Yu. (2023). The ways of compound derivative military terms formation in the English language. In: Bulletin of the Moscow Region State University. Series: Linguistics, 2, 71–83. DOI: 10.18384/2310-712X-2023-2-71-83 (in Russ.).
10. Abeyweera, G.H. (2020).The Use of affixation in academic English: A lexical explanation on affixation, root and meaning. In: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review (JSSHR), 5 (4), 179–190. DOI: 10.4038/jsshr.v5i4.62.
11. Vaneva, M. & Bojadjiev, M. (2020). English Zero Derivation Revisited: Nouning and Verbing in Online Business Articles. In: International Journal of English Linguistics, 10 (6), 307–321. DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v10n6p307.
12. Montero-Fleta, B. (2011). Suffixes in word-formation processes in scientific English. In: Language for Special Purposes: Professional Communication, Knowledge Management and Cognition, 2 (2), 4–14.
13. Averbukh, K.Ya. (2006). General Theory of the Term. Moscow: Moscow Region State University publ. (in Russ.).
14. Novodranova, V.F. (2008). Nominal word formation in Latin and its reflection in terminology. Laterculi vocum Latinarum et terminorum. Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskikh kultur publ. (in Russ.).
15. Arnold, I.V. (1986). Lexicology of the modern English language. Moscow: Vysshaya shkola publ. (in Russ.).
16. Skhalyakho, E.N., Bricheva, M.M. & Sasina, S.A. (2023). Features of the abbreviation functioning in business English. In: Current issues of modern science and education: collection of articles from the XXXIII International scientific and practical conference (Penza, November 15, 2023). Penza: Nauka i Prosveshcheniye publ., pp.145–147 (in Russ.).
17. Leychik, V.M. (2009). Terminology: Subject, methods, structure. Moscow: LIBROKOM publ. (in Russ.).
Review
Views:
27
Email this article 
