SPECIFICITY OF LEXICAL-SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN THE UKRAINIAN TERMINOLOGY OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIOLOGY

Abstract

The article examines the phenomena of homonymy and paronymy in the field of social work and sociology. Attention is drawn to the use of interdisciplinary lexical units in these areas of knowledge. Special attention is paid to paronyms-borrowings with different roots and selection of synonyms with same roots, finding antonyms, establishment of word-forming connections, searching of thematic groups. The processes of Ukrainian term formation require constant attention, professional evaluation, creative approach to the accuracy of expression. Sociology and social work as one of the most important spheres of human activity and fundamental sciences require modern, systematically elaborated terminology. Terminology of sociology and social work is characterized by the use of cross-industry terms. Thus, sociology and social work use the terms of natural and human sciences, in particular, medicine, ecology, jurisprudence, political science, philosophy, psychology, ethics, law. Among the issues of professional linguistic culture, our attention is drawn to the manifestation of paronymic and homonymous relations in the terminology of sociology and social work. In order to prevent misuse of terms-paronyms, it is necessary to take into account the values of specific and borrowed word-forming elements (roots, prefixes, suffixes). Paronyms in terminology and general vocabulary have common features. Usually scientists distinguish external paronymia when one name of the paronymic row belongs to the term system and the other is a common word or term of another branch. The presence of homonyms in the language is natural and it can be predetermined by some factors, for example, the lack of nominations for new concepts. Some scientists consider homonyms as dangerous factor, which can lead to large amount of ambiguous units that decrease the effectiveness of language as the means of communication. Other scientists emphasize the certain value of this phenomenon, which they see in the enrichment of vocabulary, in creating interesting collisions of words in speech. They believe that the emergence of new homonyms due to the splitting of polysemy expands the system of the language, enriches it with new expressive meanings. The homonymy in the terminology of sociology and social work in its main manifestations is not significantly different from similar phenomena in the lexical-semantic system of modern Ukrainian literary language, but there are some peculiarities. It is known that the basic unit of homonymy is not a single homonym, but a group of homonyms, so in the scientific literature words with the same expression plan, but with different content, are analyzed within homonymic groups.