Pavlina
Kantcheva, Delcho
Andreev
Abstract
Paronyms are words close in sounding but having less
or more different lexical meanings. Because of the closeness of their outer
form they are a matter of mistakes in the speech, i.e. the one word is
incorrectly used instead of the other. The studying of the phenomenon of
paronymy with a view to the teaching process is motivated by the opportunity of
controlling the possible mistakes in this respect. Necessary to know for this
purpose are the premises of similar mistakes both on language and
terminological level. In the present study, therefore, attention is paid to
several characteristic cases of paronymy in the anatomical terminology, as
follows: 1) between Bulgarian anatomical terms or elements of terms, 2) between
Latin anatomical terms, 3) between Latin terminological borrowings, 4) between
Bulgarian proper or Latin borrowed terms and Latin terms, 5) between anatomical
terms and terms of other sciences, 6) between anatomical terms and generally
used words, and 7) intermediate cases of paronymy and homonymy. Creative
approach to the control of the paronymous mistakes in the process of teaching
is the preventive lecturer’s strategy based on a terminological bank of
paronyms.