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Purpose: The article is devoted to some paradigmatic features of English, Spanish, and Russian terminological units of genetics and genetic engineering when used in scientific papers and discourse.
Design/methodology/approach We studied about 600 terminological units of genetics and genetic engineering in English, Spanish and Russian (200 units in each language) and about 900 contexts of their use (300 contexts in each language). Research methods include a continuous sampling of terms, comparative analysis of terminological units and their paradigmatic features in different languages, component and definitional analysis, reconstruction of term-derivation models (in particular, morphological-syntactic and semantic models), etymological analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical data processing.
Findings: The authors explore the synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, as well as variability and substitution of genetic terms as well as assess them from the standpoint of cognitive terminology as positive/negative in the framework of scientific communication.
Uniqueness/value: The authors come to the conclusion that synonymy in the fields of genetics and genetic engineering is a more positive phenomenon, while polysemy and homonymy have cross-industry and intersystem forms and lower the quality of communication between specialists. However, variability and substitution of terms are frequent and sometimes indispensable phenomena.
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The study was published within the framework of the project “Derivational, cognitive-semantic and discursive modeling of Russian, English and Spanish terminology in the field of genetics and genetic engineering: sources of origin, the history of development and the current state of term systems” and supported by a grant from the President of the Russian Federation (Federal State-Funded Institution of Higher Education Pyatigorsk State University, Project No. 075–15-2019–347, scientific supervisor Candidate of Science, Philology (research doctorate), Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow A.V. Razduev).
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Razduyev, A., Mazevskaya, A., Akaeva, K., Archakov, R. (2021). Paradigmatic Relationship Between Terms in the Field of Genetics and Genetic Engineering in Modern English, Spanish and Russian. In: Popkova, E.G., Sergi, B.S. (eds) Modern Global Economic System: Evolutional Development vs. Revolutionary Leap. ISC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69415-9_71
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