Oleshchenko Y. Russian material science terminology: cognitive and systematic functional aspects of investigation.

The object is the special texts presenting a sublanguage of material science in educational, technological and scientific - theoretical discourses. The aim is to detect and to analyze from a stand of the nomination and cognitive linguistics theories the conceptual models of material science terminology, their language expression and to define the features of systematic character of this terminology. The methods are etymological, structural - semantic, method of the word-derivations analysis, onomasiological analysis, method of word definitions, categorical, conceptual analysis and frame one. This work initiates making inventory of material science terms. Russian linguistic means of the terms expressing have been investigated in a complex way. The main paradigmatic characteristics of the material science term system have been defined. The types of terminological families and the peculiarities of variation and antonymous relations have been determined and analyzed. The main means of material science terminology word formation and the principal cognitive and onomasiological models of term derivatives have been fixed. The material science terms have been investigated by means of a frame method for the first time in linguistic practice. The conceptual analysis has been fulfilled and the metal science frame has been formed; each structural part of a general frame has been presented in a schematic way. The lexical structure of the investigated frame has been analyzed in etymological, onomasiological, cognitive and word formation aspects. Application spheres are the creation of a special explanatory dictionary and the educational process.