Semantic features of special medical lexis in lexicographic aspect

Abstract

The issue of semantic features of special medical lexis in lexicographic aspect is considered. The stages of development of special medical lexis glossary are described. At the first stage, the choice of medical sphere and target audience is justified. At the second stage, typological parameters are determined, according to which the glossary is terminological, bilingual, explanatory, thesaurus and encyclopedic, network one. At the third stage, a corpus of terms, as well as their dictionary and contextual definitions, selected from dictionaries of medical terms and popular-science medical text was formed. At the fourth stage, the analysis of dictionary and contextual definitions is carried out using component analysis; semantic features of special lexis are described. At the fifth stage, the glossary is in an electronic document with hyperlinks. The designed glossary contains the following structural components: term, dictionary definition, context, context translation, contextual definition, term translation.