About Some Manifestations of Antonymy and Synonymy in the Terminology of Economics

Abstract

In terminology, different from the general language, the synonymy was considered as a harmful occurrence in handling the problems of terminology, but acceptable. On the platform of general language, it is difficult to study the terminological lexicon in the synonymic connections as separate entities, unless they are viewed as an integrated lexicon in the general lexicon. It becomes possible to study the synonymy in terminology within a field of knowledge, like polysemy and homonymy. In terminology synonymous connections are built on the base of semantic equivalents and as such they impinge the system, although they appear for internal and external linguistic causes, which lead to their inevitable birth. On this viewpoint they are examined as a damaging occurrence and in the process of terminology standardization they contain a focal direction of the work for their removal, by determining through them the standard term.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n13p434