Cognitive and discoursive aspects of terminological structures in the english professional language "Infectology"

Abstract

Cognitive term formation as a direction in modern linguistics, the basic concept of which is terminological competence, is defined as the ability to express, understand and create knowledge with the help of terms. Therefore, it is not only a tool that registers language phenomena, but also a means of why these phenomena are realized exactly this way. The cognitive approach to discourse includes the fact that language activity is one of the types of people's mental and cognitive activity, and the language phenomena can be properly understood only in the context of other cognitive processes, such as knowledge presentation, memory, attention, intelligence.