CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF LEXICAL UNITS FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF FORMATION OF CHINESE COMPUTER-RELATED TERMINOLOGICAL COMPOUND WORDS

Abstract

The article discusses derivational processes that determine the formation of Chinese terminology in the field of information technology, and related problems of the selection of lexical units meeting the requirements of the study of cognitive mechanisms of formation of terminological compound words. Specifics of derivation can impose restrictions on the analysis of relationships between the components of a term, determining the prospects for the study of its cognitive-semantic structure. Due to the dependence of computer terminology on English as a donor language, a significant number of formally complex words do not demonstrate an independent result of the Chinese word-composition, and as such are not a product of conceptualization within the framework of the Chinese language. The paper studies the possibility of analyzing different types of terminology in terms of origin and structure, and offers criteria for the selection and classification of terms based on approaches to the study of the specifics of relationships between the components, characteristics of the derivational step at a term creating stage and the formal and semantic unity of a terminological compound word.