THE PECULIARITIES OF FIRE SAFETY TERMINOLOGY IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to conduct a comparative analysis of fire safety terminology in British and American English. The topicality of this research is due to the fact that knowledge of the regional peculiarities of English fire safety terms is critically important for preventing communication failures and ensuring effective interaction between specialists from different countries. Terminological and defining dictionaries are the main source of research data. To obtain more complete information, data from English-language specialized Internet sites was used as well. Within the framework of the research, key attention is given to the comparative study of semantics of fire safety terms, which made it possible to specify and analyze intervariant correlations and divergences in the terminology under study, which are mainly due to such linguistic phenomena as intervariant synonymy and polysemy.