THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS OF POPULAR-SCIENCE STYLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (A STUDY OF NARRATIVES BY OLIVER SACKS “THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT” AND “THE MIND’S EYE”)
Keywords:
a term, a term-word, a terminological word combination, psychological terminology, popular-science literatureAbstract
Thе article is devoted to the study of terms in the field of "psychology" on the basis of English popular science literature. The specificity of the popular scientific text is determined due to the fact that these texts are created for the purpose of mass-circulation of scientific information to popularize certain amounts of scientific information, and not for highly specialized study, as the actual scientific texts. Significant attention has been paid to lexical, structural and semantic properties of psychological terms in popular science literature. Two narratives, namely “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “The Mind’s Eye”, written by an English neurologist, Oliver Sacks, have been analyzed and 299 psychological terms have been singled out. The ratio of the terms-words and terminological phrases on the basis of the studied material has been investigated. The study of popular science works (according to the formal structure) has showed that the correlation of terms-words and terminological combinations in the sphere of psychology is 254 and 45 respectively. The article deals with the analysis of structural features of psychological terminology. It has been proved that psychological terms and terminological combinations are constructed according to various morphological and syntactic patterns. With respect to their structural characteristics, the vast majority of psychological terms have been acknowledged as derived. The process of word formation of terms with the help of suffixation has been asserted to be one of the most productive ways to replenish the terminological apparatus of psychology. The detailed analysis describing the structural models of psychological terms has been given. Considering the logical category, the belonging of terms-words to the parts of speech has been outlined. Two-component models of terminological combinations have been manifested as the most frequent ones. The semantic features of psychological terms have been examined. Due to their semantic feature of the main component, five semantic categories such as “object”, “subject”, “names of diseases and pathological states”, “procedures” and “psychological states” have been singled out.
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