CHANGE OF THE EXTENTIONAL FEATURES OF THE TERM AS A RESULT OF THE DESPECIALISATION AND DETERMINOLOGIZATION
The article considers the main features of a term as an object of professional communication studies. Such lexical units develop the tendency to have one meaning and to be deprived of emotional component and independency on the context. The article proves that from lexical-semantic point of view there is no strict border between terms and non-terms (general lexis), which leads do determinalization and formation of consubstitutional terms. The processes of terminologization and despecialization of lexical units are also discussed.