ИСТИНА

Terminological researches have always been carried out at the English Department involving the scholars in the investigation of various aspects of terminology and terminology of wide-ranging specific areas. The purpose of this research was to focus on the vocabulary of a special subject field, namely the Canine terminology. Our scrutiny distinguishes the present work from other previous attempts in this area as we were aiming not only at the stratification and description of the terms in question, but we also engaged ourselves in the elaboration of the philological analysis of the given terms. To achieve the stated aims perfectly we described some essential features that should be acquired by terms in the proper sense of the word. This article presents only the minor part of the research, namely some general theoretical foundations concerning the term as the basic unit of terminology.