About thematic corpus of mine hoisting terminology system

The lexicon related to mining and mineral processing is a special segment of the professional language. Both the mining activity itself, which experiences significant changes in the course of technological progress, and the language reflecting this development are in a state of constant transformation. This article is devoted to the study of the thematic corpus of the German mine hoisting vocabulary, which is a narrow segment of mining terminology, while remaining an integral part of it. The subject of the study are terminological units used in the scientific field of mine hoisting and selected as a result of practical translation activity from specialized technical documentation, technological descriptions and guides. The study aims to investigate thematic groups of the German mine hoisting lexicon by using the lexico-semantic field theory. Such a method of analysis has not been used for the investigated professional lexicon before. Thus, the relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient research of thematic corpus of terms functioning in the lexicon of mine hoisting. The study revealed relevant lexico-semantic groups, determined their place in the field structure and elucidated interrelations of the term system in the language.