Linguistic analysis of English photography terminology

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation is to perform a linguistic analysis of the English vocabulary of photography as a means of professional communication. The research includes a brief historical introduction to the progress of photography (diachronic approach) to study the (co)relationship between the development of photographic science and enrichment of its specialized lexical fund based on newly formed scientific concepts. The concept and quantitative analysis of the studied corpus established the predominance of the terminological units that are part of the conceptual groups, denoting the photo camera and its settings, photo editing and printing, lighting, photography metering, and issues. The ways of formation of English terminology of photography were investigated using structural, morphological, and componential analyses. The data acquired showed a variable number of terminological units formed according to various structural models. In the process of photographic terminology formation, substantive type of terminological combinations predominates, followed by the derivative units, simple and compound terminological units. Photography abbreviations as a form of language, time, and space economy were also structurally and semantically studied.

Keywords

• photographic art
• english language
• terminology
• photography