Tokareva Olga Vladimirovna, Evdokimov Mikhail Vitalievich
St. Petersburg Mining University
Submitted: 08.03.2022
Abstract. The aim of the study is to compile a thematic glossary of the current English vocabulary in the oil and gas industry based on corpus data. The article substantiates the importance of using corpus research methods as tools to identify trends in the evolution of language for specific purposes. The scientific novelty of the work lies in identifying thematic clusters of lexical units that are frequently used in the English specialized discourse of the oil and gas industry. As a result of the study, the focus of the discourse of the oil and gas industry on such issues as unconventional hydrocarbon development, economic efficiency and envi-ronmental problems has been revealed.
Key words and phrases: английский язык для специальных целей, терминология нефтегазовой отрасли, корпус, частотная лексика, English for specific purpose, oil and gas industry terminology, corpus, high-frequency
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