BASE INFORMATION BLOCKS IN DEFINITONS OF CONCEPTS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES
The article is devoted to the correlation between the conceptual categories and prototypical information blocks which are used for disclosure of their content in definitions of technical terms. The analysis of the definitions selected by means of continuous sampling method from terminological dictionaries, specialized Internet sources and official technical standards made it possible to identify frequently represented information blocks for certain types of concepts. The information blocks that are likely to define the concepts of various categories are discussed. It has been determined that the information blocks which does not depend on the category of concepts include principal information blocks of generic affiliation and attributes block as well as additional information blocks of examples, opposition, hyponyms, comparison and supplementary data which are far less productive than principal information blocks. The research focuses on the definitions of technical terms of astrophysics and nanotechnology.