FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF SEMANTIC PHENOMENA IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK METALLURGICAL TERMINOLOGY
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This article provides a comparative analysis of the functional and semantic features of synonymy, polysemy, and homonymy in English and Uzbek metallurgical terminology. The primary objective of the article is to identify the similarities and differences between the two languages based on the relationships among the form, concept, semantic connection, and contextual realization of metallurgical terms. The article employs descriptive, comparative-typological, semantic, componential, and terminographic approaches. In evaluating terminological units, the object–concept–definition–designation relationships established in the ISO 704:2022 standard were used as a theoretical basis. The analysis demonstrates that synonymy in metallurgical terminology is characterized by different naming variants of the same metallurgical concept; polysemy involves a single term expressing several semantically interconnected meanings; and homonymy is characterized by formal similarity in the absence of a conceptual and semantic relationship. In English, units such as casting, charge, ore, and matte clearly demonstrate the relationship between general-language meanings and specialized meanings within the metallurgical domain, whereas in Uzbek, some of these concepts are expressed through differential or borrowed units such as quyish/quyma, shixta, ruda, and shteyn. On this basis, the article substantiates that semantic asymmetry in English and Uzbek metallurgical terminology is particularly associated with borrowing, calquing, derivation, and contextual specialization of terminological units.Keywords
metallurgical terminology, term, synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, semantic asymmetry, terminological equivalence, context, concept, English language, Uzbek languageReferences
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