DIALECTICS OF CHAOS AND ORDER IN SYNONYMOUS SERIES OF TERMINOLOGICAL UNITS (BASED ON MEDICAL TERMS)

Abstract

The article analyzes synonymous series in medical terminology, in which the phenomena of chaos and order, being opposites, do not destroy but mutually condition each other participating in different proportions in the formation and behavior of synonymous series. Comparative and historical-diachronic methods of definitions analysis, interpretation and observation of the meaning of medical terms made it possible to conclude that order, occupying a central position in the establishment of synonymous relations between them and being an instrument of restraining the elements of chaos, is achieved as a result of suppression and not its complete destruction. The methods of suppressing chaos in the synonymous series are found and the means of their representation in the language are revealed. Within the framework of the synonymous series, a number of ways of managing chaos are identified, which provide the opportunity to operate with meanings, their redistribution, transformation moving some meanings into the focus of attention and shifting others into its background part. It is revealed that synonymous orderliness without losing its diversity and the possibility of further development exists simultaneously with dynamic chaos. It is proved that the dynamics of the phenomena of chaos and order, while preserving the synonymous series, leaves it open, able to attract new terms and determine their place among other synonyms putting and distributing new meanings into the already established semantic relations between them.