International Journal of Philology

The article deals with the structural and quantitative analysis of metaphorical terms, which are an important means of nomination and an active word-formation factor in the English professional language of veterinary medicine. The object of our study is metaphorical terms in the English professional language of veterinary medicine, and the subject is their structural classification. The purpose of the article is to analyze and classify metaphorical terms of the English professional language of veterinary medicine according to the morphological principle. The task is to divide the metaphorical terms of this terminology into certain classes and study their structural models. The corpus of the study consists of metaphorical terms selected by the method of continuous sampling from modern professional dictionaries. The English professional language of veterinary medicine is built on the basis of the commonly used language and is in constant interrelation with it (it uses a common grammar: morphology and syntax), but has different areas of vocabulary realization. That is why the metaphorical terms of the English professional language are characterized primarily by the morphological and syntactic method of term formation. The structural analysis of metaphorical terms is aimed at determining the most effective ways of expressing metaphorical meanings in the studied professional language. It has been established that metaphorical terms can be expressed by root words, composites and phrases. Depending on the belonging of the word used in a figurative sense to a particular part of speech, the noun, adjective and adverbial metaphor terms are studied, the most active of them are identified, and their main structural models are described

metaphor; veterinary medicine; structure; simple terms; derived terms; complex terms (composites); phrases