Konstantinova O. The Structural and Semantic Peculiarities of Tax Terms in American and British Variants of Modern English

The thesis deals with the study of the structural and semantic peculiarities of the tax terms functioning in American and British English. The methods of structural, cognitive, and corpus linguistics applied permit implementing of integral analysis of the English tax terminology in American and British English: a conceptual framework of the tax terminological system set in the paper makes it possible to establish the conceptual interrelations of terminological units within taxation term system and to produce for the first time the inventory of the English tax terms; the structural and grammatical peculiarities of monolexemic and polylexemic terms are studied; the main types of British-American terminological parallells are determined; the reasons for synonymy, antonymy and polysemy are explicated in the paper.