LINGUISTIC NATURE AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF PROFESSIONAL JARGONISMS

Abstract

The paper deals with the linguistic nature and social significance of professional jargons, which is important for understanding the peculiarities of professional communication and language processes in language. The objective of the work is to analyze the peculiarities of professional jargonisms, their correlation with terminological and literary speech, as well as to compare jargonisms in Russian and English. The tasks of the study are to interpret jargonisms in different linguistic schools and directions; to determine the communicative status of jargonisms; to compare jargonisms in Russian and English. The study uses comparative and contextual analysis, descriptive and comparative methods. As a result of the work, the author reveals that jargonisms are not always expressive-evaluative doublets of terms or words of the literary language, but can denote specific professional concepts, some jargonisms have close in meaning analogues in Russian and English, which is considered as professional diglossia.