Lexicography and terminography in specific scientific discourse

Abstract

The article manifests the fact that in recent decades there is a general diversification of expertise and intensive data growth. The author claims that lexicography serves the interests of a particular society, solves cognitive, accumulative, educational, scientific, and cultural problems, and lexicographical guidelines of scientific discourse is an important feature of the scientific paradigm in modem society. It is alleged that the development of the theory of terminography is an effective way to systematize the terminology and specific terminography issues. Actual problems of modern linguistics are: clarification of the role and place of lexicography, including metalexicography and terminography in the paradigm of scientific disciplines; clarifying the terms lexicography, metalexicography, terminology, terminography; identification of the most important parameters of these fields.