Rozhkov Y. Verbalization of Animal Diseases in English: Linguocognitive and Structural-Semantic Aspects.

The dissertation paper is dedicated to the study of the English terminology for animal diseases in linguocognitive and structural-semantic aspects. The relevance of the research arises from the general focus of modern linguistic studies towards studies in specialized terminologies in view of rapid international cooperation development; also, lack of systemic linguistic insights into the English terminological system for animal diseases calls for clear linguistic and extralinguistic causes of its formation and development. The purpose of the paper is to identify lexical, semantic, structural and syntactic parameters of the English terminological system for animal diseases through complex analysis of multi-faceted description of terminological lexis within the scope of cognitive approach, which enables detailed characterization of the terminological system under study. The research material yeiled 1050 terminological units belonging to the English terminological system for animal diseases, selected from different sources of English veterinary and medicine sources. Following the findings an EnglishUkrainian dictionary of animal diseases was compiled.