Functioning of the term 'environment' in languages for special purposes: frame analysis

The article is devoted to the functioning of the English-language term 'environment' in the humanities and technical sciences. The main aim of the research was to construct the frame denoted by the word 'environment' based on the frame approach in the description of word semantics, the application of etymological data, language corpora analysis, and to find the similarities and differences in the structure of the resulting frame depending on the particular topic of scientific discourse that a text is devoted to. The frame approach to the study of word semantics provides a more complete and accurate picture of the diversity of meanings of the given word in the English-language scientific worldview. The research was conducted on the materials of the articles published on the Science Direct platform and data provided by the British National Corpus. The English word 'environment' was found to be used in various contexts, which include environmental issues, medicine, biology, economics, psychology, computer technology and other areas of special discourse, where the slots of the 'environment'-associated frame are manifested in the surrounding context. The article presents a graphical depiction of the 'environment' frame structure, defines a set of its basic slots and their possible content, demonstrates the differences and similarities in the structure of the frame when 'environment' is used as a term or part of a term. There have been identified the main parameters of the frame: the fact of its belonging to the physical or non-material aspect of the worldview, varying in physical parameters from the micro to the macro world. The frame 'environment' has also revealed a universal structure, including the surrounding factors, the object and the interaction between them, which is preserved regardless of the text specialization.