LEVEL OF CONCEPTUAL AND STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF TERMINOLOGY THROUGH THE LENSES OF PARADIGMATIC RELATIONS AND VARIABILITY OF TERMINOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS
The article provides a survey of theoretical approaches to describing conceptual and structural organization of terminology and to identifying the essence of the “term” notion. The authors briefly tackle relevant problems of terminology and identify the causes, which complicate their solution. The paper analyses the reasons for the absence of a universal definition of the multi-aspect and multi-functional notion “term” in the modern terminology science. The authors formulate and justify the problems, which make it difficult to classify terms, to separate terms from different terminological fields and to perform an adequate and equivalent translation of terms. The paper considers the following problems: “terminological field” border, differentiation of terms and nomens and affiliation of linguistic units to professional vocabulary considering the fact that these linguistic units either belong or do not belong to a certain terminological system. Finally, the authors formulate certain issues requiring immediate attention.