AMBIGUITY OF TERMINOLOGICAL SEMANTICS AS A PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of ambiguity of terminological units semantics and the resulting communicative problems. The focus is on paronymic terms, whose meaning is not always possible to distinguish for native speakers. There are three types of communicative failures associated with the functioning of paronymic terms: inappropriate comic effect, unintentional expression of negative emotional attitudes towards the object under discussion, distortion of the addresser’s message. The study is aimed at identifying and characterizing the paronymic type of semantic ambiguity of terms, which is of great research interest and importance in terms of improving the level of knowledge of the Russian language. This article is of considerable interest not only for linguistics in general, but also for terminology and semantics in particular. In addition, the results produced by the study can be of great use in the teaching of languages for specific purposes.