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Defining the entry unit in a dictionary of non-standard professional vocabulary Although scholars holding the traditional view on terminology regard non-standard professional vocabulary as an undesirable deviation from the norm, such lexis plays a very important communicative and social role: not only does it augment the flow of specialised information, but it also cements professional community. Undeniably, however, such in-group talk is highly impenetrable for an outsider, including beginner trainees. Therefore, it is sometimes proposed that teaching materials, including LSP textbooks, should present slang or jargon expressions to facilitate natural professional communication. One of the reference works that could answer the needs of neophytes as well as become an important resource for the authors of LSP materials and linguists interested in the informal layer of specialised sociolects is a dictionary of non-standard professional vocabulary. One of the issues that an LSP lexicographer faces is the appropriate selection of the dictionary headwords. This paper offers some considerations regarding informal professional vocabulary and suggests a definition and features of non-standard professional vocabulary units that might prove helpful in lemma selection procedure.

This paper presents examples of special-purpose banking language items which illustrate word formation processes in present-day Russian used in the sphere of banking in order to compress meaning, i.e. univerbation as well as abbreviation. As a rule, these particular phenomena are considered one of the manifestations of the principle of linguistic economy. The orientation towards linguistic economy provides a stimulus for multiplying the number of new lexical items in banking language, which can be related to technical terms and professional slang. The productivity of word formation processes used in order to compress meaning can also be linked to the needs of adjusting written and oral communication to the world standards in the sphere of Russian banking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]