PARONYMS IN THE SCIENTIFIC DENTAL DISCOURSE: ABNORMALITIES AND VARIANTS OF THE NORMATIVE USE

This article focuses on the language of health care system, which is very important for modern society as its wellbeing and further development is impossible without the full and harmonious life of both an individual and a society as a whole is impossible without assistance and support of medical science and healthcare professionals. And dentistry is an inseparable part of the health care. The aim of the study is to highlight the linguistics phenomenon of paronymy in the dentistry discourse and to draw attention on the importance of correct selecting of language devices to express complex scientific thoughts, ideas and hypotheses. Therefore, the focus of this research has been shifted to the peculiarities of the development and potential of the scientific language. The peculiarities in using normative language when communicating in the dentistry domain have been studied. Special attention has been paid to misuse of modern Ukrainian literary language, especially at the lexical, grammatical and stylistic levels. It is also noted that the skilful usage of terminology is a daily duty of every qualified specialist. The theoretical and methodological bases of the dentist’s professional language in the context of language professional practices and discourse development have been identified. The article analyzes the causes and effects of misuse of the paronyms – words which are partially similar by the form but different by the meaning. The article has also provided detailed practical guidance for appropriate using of paronyms. The research has been done within the anthropocentric scientific paradigm. The methodology includes descriptive and analytical methods, general linguistic method of scientific description, comparative methods, special linguistic methods and techniques, including discourse analysis as well. The study material included the texts of original theses, articles, manuals, textbooks, monographs, abstracts.