SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: S.V. Kiselieva, T.S. Rosyanova
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg; St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance
Abstract:
The paper is devoted to terminological graduality and the role of graduality in the professional experience and knowledge structuring. Graduality is considered as a linguistic, cognitive and intellectual phenomenon, fundamentally important to the professional thinking of economists. Various examples of gradual terms formation are discussed.
Keywords: cognitive terminology, term, gradual terms, terminological graduality, linguistic graduality