Information on the thesis

Thesis  for  a  Candidate  Degree  in  Philology,  speciality  10.02.04  –  Germanic
Languages. – Ivan Franko National University of L’viv, L’viv, 2016.
The thesis focuses on the complex analysis of structural, semantic and textual
aspects  of  the  English  professional  fitness  language  within  the  framework  of
terminology.
It is for the first time that English professional fitness language is analyzed on
the level of terminology as well as of sentence and text. The thesis begins with the
consideration of the concepts of professional language, term and term system. The
stages of the development of English professional fitness language are then revealed
and  described,  and  structural  and  semantic  characteristics  of  the  English  fitness
terminological system and other lexical units are analyzed.
The  investigation  of  the  structure  of  the  term  system  of  fitness  has  allowed
singling  out  nine  terminological  fields  as  well  as  microfields  and  determining  the
combinatorial potential of terminological units. The term-building characteristics of
the  English  fitness  terms  including  semantic,  represented  by  metaphorical  and
metonymical ways of term-building, morphological (affixation, word-compounding,
blending,  conversion  and  abbreviation)  and  syntactic  ones  (terminological  word-
combinations,  idiomatic  terms)  have  been  studied.  Productive  patterns  of  term-
coining in the English professional fitness language have been identified.
The  thesis  follows  the  functional  approach  to  studying  specialized  texts.
According  to  their  communicative  purposes,  the  specialized  texts  of  fitness  are
classified  into  three  major  types:  1)  EXPERT/EXPERT-JOURNALIST  →  NON-
EXPERT/AMATEUR;  2)  EXPERT  →  FUTURE  EXPERT;  3)  EXPERT/
SCIENTIST  →EXPERT/SCIENTIST.  The  texts  have  been  studied  from  the
viewpoint  of  term  saturation,  term  frequency  and  of  the  way  in  which  terms  are
distributed in the texts depending on their functional purposes. The research has also
provided the insight into  the structure of the  specialized  texts as  well as into their
lexical and terminological design. The analysis of similarities and differences in the
structure, morphology and syntax of specialized texts on fitness has been carried out.
Within  the  framework  of  this  investigation,  it  has  been  established  that  there  is  a
direct relationship between the types of texts, their communicative purposes and the
choice of terminological units. The texts with a higher level of expertise of the text
recipient  are  more  saturated  with  terms,  employ  complex  syntactical  constructions
and show a tendency towards rigid organization.
Key words: term, professional language, terminology, term building, semantics,
specialized text, text producer, text recipient.