Oleh V. Tyshchenko
Doctor of Philology, Professor,
Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies
Lviv State University of Life Safety,
Lviv, Ukraine
Professor at the Faculty of Arts
University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava,
Trnava, Slovakia
e-mail: olkotiszczenko@gmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0811-2123
Scopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57834809700
Maryna Kucherenko
PhD Student at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies,
Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies
Lviv State University of Life Safety,
Lviv, Ukraine
e-mail: stepaniyuk@gmail.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-8089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2026-42.22
SUMMARY
The article examines the cognitive and informational foundations of computer security terms, identifies their thematic groups, associated risks, and threats in the modern digital space and discursive practices across distantly related Germanic and Slavic terminological systems. A structural and semantic analysis of the information protection terminological system has been carried out, specifically covering information space architecture, national and international security (entities denoting reconnaissance and espionage activities, illegal drug trafficking, types of traps, etc.), system administration, and computer threats, considering traditional linguistic and conceptual metaphors of various types, their interaction, interpenetration, and the typology of conceptual spheres. The study reveals the ontological and pragmatic mechanisms of semantic term formation of metaphorical terms in English, Ukrainian, and Polish, defines the areas of their conceptual integration, and traces the cognitive and onomasiological foundations of terminological nomination (color, taste, sensory-perceptual, auditory, temperature, etc.). Instances of taxonomy, synonymy, and antonymy of both highly specialized and interdisciplinary metaphorical designations are established. The analysis demonstrated that the source domains for metaphorical terms include medicine, the military sphere, metals and substances, family relations, architectural metaphors, and the concept spheres of “clean-dirty” and “life-death”. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of complex metaphorical terms in view of their word-forming and semantic derivation, compatibility, and modeling based on structuralgrammatical and semantic-motivational features. The research material consisted of specialized dictionaries of information and cybersecurity in three languages, as well as English-language documents related to the field of digital information protection.
Key words: information security, terminological nomination, metaphor typology, conceptual integration, structural-grammatical model.
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