The Achievements and Perspectives of Development of Eastern Slavonic Explanatory Linguistic Terminography

Bohdan Shunevych

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Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Foreign Language Department, Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies of Lviv

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3461-250X

e-mail: sbshunev@gmail.com

Ihor Barkatov

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Associate Professor, Head of the R&D Laboratory at the Military Institute of Tank Troops, National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute»

e-mail: igor.barkatov@gmail.com

Valerii Tiurin

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Senior scientific worker of the R&D Laboratory at the Military Institute of Tank Troops, National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute»

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3311-9043

e-mail: valery_t@ukr.net

Title: Stages of Compiling the Bilingual Dictionary of Tank Terms: Searching Materials for Its Creation

https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2025-8-13

Rubric: TERMINOLOGY OF LINGUISTICS. THEORY OF TERMINOGRAPHY AND PRACTICE OF BRANCH DICTIONARIES

Abstract: The article substantiates the need to create an “English-Ukrainian short dictionary of tank terms”, considers the sequence of its compilation based on the material of glossaries of terms for Ukrainian, German and American tanks, as well as Ukrainian and English military literature on this topic. In addition, examples of compiling general and special military dictionaries, glossaries in Ukraine by teachers of military and civilian higher education institutions are described; possible options for preparatory work for compiling translation dictionary of tank terms, the process of selecting materials to identify the necessary terms are proposed.
This publication draws attention to the role of cooperation with experts among well-known specialists in this field of knowledge for consultations in the process of creating dictionaries, and also analyzes the main ways of searching for specific Ukrainian-language equivalents of English terms.

Keywords: terminological vocabulary, military scientific and technical literature, dictionary.

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