Terms related to summer sports games in Uzbek and English, created using the lexical-semantic method

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This article examines the terminology related to summer sports in Uzbek and English through a lexical- semantic lens. It discusses how terms typically represent single concepts but often embody multiple meanings. Key criteria for a transparent term include belonging to a specific terminological system and expressing a singular concept. The study highlights the importance of semantic integrity in terminological combinations, which can be contextually bound yet functionally significant. The author categorizes compound terms based on their component structure, providing examples of two-, three-, four-, and five-component terms in both languages. The findings reveal distinct characteristics of sports terminology, including semantic commonality and the presence of microfields, differentiating it from other fields of terminology. Keywords: Lexical-semantic method, semantic commonality, transparent terms, two-component terms, three- component terms, four-component terms, five-component terms, semantic integrity. criteria. It must belong to only one terminological Introduction: Currently, several scientists in linguistics system and express only one specific concept. have put forward their scientific theories within the Transparent terms, as a rule, arise in the process of field of sports. The field of sports is created on the basis purposeful, conscious activity of a narrow circle of of sports relations, which has a systematic structure specialists in a certain field of knowledge. The main and is manifested as a subsystem. This allows you to feature of a terminological combination is that it manage and direct the methods of resolving conflicts expresses one specific concept. It is manifested in a between human activities and vital factors to the system of terms that functionally and semantically interests. The problem of sports is very complex and express concepts limited only to a certain conceptual multifaceted, and is associated with almost all aspects field. of human existence. Currently, sports have become an integral part of social life, and the terminology of We considered it necessary to consider other various sports is becoming more and more familiar to definitions highlighted by scientists, since a number of more people. Every year, works dedicated to specific linguists have mentioned systematicity among the sports phenomena are published abroad and in our main features of the concept of terminology. According country. There are several definitions of terms in the to V.N. Yarseva, the terminology of each scientific field field of linguistics. Based on the definitions of the word is not just a list of terms, but a system of interconnected "term", the concept of "terminology" can be and semantically divided concepts, that is, a distinguished. Terminology is a science that studies the semiological system. He also emphasizes how the collection of terms of a certain field of knowledge or terminology system is formed in the process of profession, as well as the formation, composition and language development and study and how it reflects functions of terms. national speech traditions (1). From these considerations, we can determine that terms have A term can be associated with a single concept in a specific linguistic, semantic, and structural functions. field. However, it is rare for a word to embody a single concept, and we are limited to the clear meaning of the term. Because a transparent term must meet two main International Journal of Pedagogics 159 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijp International Journal of Pedagogics (ISSN: 2771-2281) Literature Review terms are divided into symbol words, model words and multi-component terms. S.V. Grinev-Grinevich noted A number of important definitions of Uzbek that when dividing terms according to their content, terminology are given in the works of foreign scholars. various semantic features should be taken into account We considered it necessary to cite some of the (6). definitions and views of these authors in our work. According to V.M. Leychik, “A term is a lexical unit used Another characteristic feature of term combinations is for specific purposes of a particular language, their semantic integrity. The semantic integrity of a expressing a specific or abstract concept and word combination is manifested in idiomaticity and is expressing a theory in a specific specialized field of understood as “the absence of meanings from the set knowledge or activity” (2). In this regard, A. A. of meanings included in the structural parts of the Reformatsky defines terms as “words limited to specific language, in the integral formation of the language” (7). purposes; words that seek to express concepts Although the term is considered free in terms of its precisely and name things in a single sense.” He also scope, it is unconditionally subject to the laws of emphasizes that “terms exist not in ordinary language, language. That is, the use of the term in other areas but