Khrystyna Kovalchyk
PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities
Lviv Polytechnic National University,
Lviv, Ukraine
e-mail: holidays1997@ukr.net
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3250-090X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2026-42.13
SUMMARY
This article analyses the productive potential of the term ‘mobile communications’ in terms of its lexical definitions, structure, semantics, and its function as a technical concept. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the field of mobile communications is the most in-demand terminological lexicon, reflecting the progressive development of scientific and technical knowledge in civilisation. Mobile communications terms are defined as stable units of synthetic and analytical naming, assigned to specific concepts in the field of communication technologies and restricted to a specific area of application. It is argued that it is precisely the terminology of the mobile communications sector, which enriches and enhances contemporary English technical language, that to a certain extent elucidates its current state and enables an understanding of its powerful term-forming potential. It has been established that the most numerous thematic groups of mobile communications terminology are the names of the digital and logical components of a mobile phone, external devices for receiving and transmitting information, and so on. The pathways by which terms are borrowed into the English technical language of mobile communications from other scientific fields have been traced, which distinguishes it as a new, independent terminological system of knowledge. An analysis of the productive potential of the term ‘mobile communications’ is the aim and objective of this article. This article employs the basic semantic categories of ‘meaning’ and ‘significance’ as the guiding principles of a key methodology for studying the modern English terminology of ‘mobile communications’. The methodology involves identifying the common, generalised meaning (invariant) of a terminological term within the language system, and numerous differential features (meanings) within the speech system, which correspond to various objects of reality and are explicated through the processes of permanent term formation and meaning formation within the terminological system under study. It is concluded that the basis of the semantics and terminologisation of general-language words lies in the combination of an abstract general-language meaning and variable components, semantic-differential features which generate specific specialised meanings in professional language.
Keywords:: term ‘mobile communications’, productive potential, meaning, senses, invariant, semantic-differential feature.
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