THE LOCAL CONCEPTS AND THEIR LINGUISTIC EXPRESSION IN THE CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF THE "NORM", "ANOMALY", "DIAGNOSTIC"
The article focuses on the linguistic nomination of the metric concepts in orthodontic terminology. Terminology as a science started the period of its cognitive development along with the formation and development of the cognitive linguistics. Cognitive approach requires that terminological systems be described conceptually as certain structures of a specific knowledge. The sets of concepts are specific for every sphere and are determined in the course of special conceptual analysis. As a result of conceptual analysis of orthodontic terminology, it was revealed that metric orthodontic concepts are one of the basic constituents of the conceptual system and have their specific features of linguistic expression.