EXTRA-LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN GENRES AND TERM SYSTEMS FORMATION IN THE EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT
The paper presents some observations on the interplay between text evolution, social and pragmatic context and aspects of term formation in economic communication. Economic communication in written English has its origins in Old English legal texts. Due to extra-linguistic factors, at an early stage of its development economic terminology was connected with court proceedings and law. The development of trade in towns in the 15th century stimulated the emergence of professional vocabulary. Evolutionary processes in term formation take place through the interaction of language and social environment. The evolution of the macro-social context and the development of genre-specific characteristics of specialized texts led to the crystallization of terminological systems, which progress from genre diffusion through terminization to specialization, acquiring associations with certain professional or social contexts.