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3.Special literary vocabulary(terms,poetic words,archaic words, barbarisms and foreign words,neologisms)

Terms are words denoting notions of special fields of knowledge and generally associated with a definite branch of science.

Terms are generally associated with a definite branch of science. Here are some examples: e.g.: microlinguistics, phoneme, vocalism, amplitude, charge, antibiotic, penicillin. Generally , terms are used in the language of science but with certain stylistic purpose they may be used in the language of a emotive prose. For example, Cronin used a lot of medical terms in some of his books. In is done to make the narration vivid, bright and close to life.

It is a well known fact that terms are monosemantic and have not any contextual meaning. In most cases they have a denotational free meaning. But in some situations a term may have a figurative or emotionally coloured meaning. When it is used in other styles but scientific it may cease to be a term and becomes an ordinary word.

It happens to the word “atomic” (atomic energy, atomic bomb) which lost its property of a term and acquired a metaphorical meaning in the phrases “atomic age”,”atomic music”. Compare the above given word combinations with the following word combinations which are used as scientific terms: atomic energy, atomic bomb.