Stratification Technology of the English Shipbuilding Sublanguage Lexical Units

The study of shipbuilding sublanguage, development and systematic description of its vocabulary are not only of great theoretical, but also of practical importance. The sublanguage of shipbuilding consists of complex terminological systems to be studied and unified by the joint efforts of linguists, sociolinguists and naval architects. The aims of the present research are the following: a) to study classification of ships and their systems from various aspects of shipbuilding science, b) to consider principles of building a terminological shipbuilding dictionary, including multicomponent terms and models they are formed of, c) to analyse processes of terminalisation or reterminalisation of lexical units d) to analyse how lexical units belonging to the so-called general scientific usage and special vocabulary function in this branch of science, i.e. to stratify lexemes according to the degree of their terminalisation, and to create a lexical minimum for students specialising in this field of knowledge. The research was carried out on the basis of structural-probability analysis, using the concept of distribution vocabulary, developed by prof. N.D. Andreev.