SYNONYMS OF THE NOTION "DISEASE" IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Timkina Yuliya Yur'evna
Perm State Agricultural Academy named after Academician D. N. Prianishnikov
Abstract. The article is devoted to the problems of choice and systematization of the notion "disease" synonyms in the English language. By statistical methods of corpus linguistics the author chose the synonyms satisfying the criteria of quantitative indicator of connection strength, frequency, universality, width and usefulness in veterinary students’ foreign language education. The acquired data allowed the author to form a synonymic line identifying the place of synonyms with a stronger semantic proximity.
Key words and phrases: синонимы, ветеринария, болезнь, семантическое поле, корпус, статистические методы, частотность, словоупотребление, широта покрытия, synonyms, veterinary, disease, semantic field, corpus, statistical methods, frequency, word usage, scope
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