Cognitive-frame modeling of the terminology system of US corporate law

Within the framework of the modern cognitive stage of terminology development, cognitive-frame modeling of terminology systems of legal English as a language for special purposes is of particular relevance. The work aims to construct a cognitive-frame model of the terminology system of US corporate law, representing the dynamic structures of highly specialized knowledge that correlate with the studied terminology system. The article presents the theoretical foundations of cognitive-frame modeling of terminology systems, provides a sequence of cognitive-frame modeling, constructs and describes a cognitive-frame model of the terminology system of US corporate law, and identifies semantic connections between its structural elements. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that this terminology system is studied for the first time in terms of cognitive modeling using a field approach in their dialectical combination. The cognitive-frame model developed as a result of the study, based on the superframe “Corporate Law”, represents a two-level field organization of knowledge structures in this area, verbalized by terminological units of the specified terminology system. Constructed according to the principle of integral field organization, the model is a hierarchical structure that combines the core, near-core zone, and periphery, and consists of frames and subframes that are concretized through an extensive system of slots, subslots, and differential-semantic groups of terms.