THE INITIAL STAGE OF FRENCH BANKING TERMINOLOGY FORMATION
The article concerns the initial stage of banking terminology formation in close relation to the history of banking in France. This approach corresponds to the object-matter of the new discipline - cognitive-diachronic terminology developed by the author. Due to the fact that there is currently no clear distinction between historical terminology and diachronic terminology, the author explains the difference in these directions and proposes, in the framework of the modern cognitive-discursive paradigm of linguistic development, a new direction - cognitive-diachronic terminology, which finds stages of learning a particular field of activity, as well as ways to nominate new knowledge and concepts. The author introduces the concept of a pre-term, because such phenomena as the existence of incomplete terms, synonyms and polysemy of terms are characteristic of he terminology of the initial period. Detailed consideration is given to the conditions of its terminologisation and inclusion into a terminology system. The author also establishes means of banking terms formation in the early phases of banking activities development and emphasizes the idea that terms formation is connected with special activity or knowledge formation. At the initial stage of banking terminology formation the following ways of banking terms formation are found out: metonymic transfer, narrowing or extension of the main meaning of the word, borrowing, calquing and derivational term formation. The author also considers some examples of the terms that appeared in the early phases of banking activities development.