The problem of semantic organization of vocabulary: the views of scientists

The article presents a critical examination of the organization of a language’s lexical resources, offering a detailed analysis and interpretation of the data obtained from scientific research on this subject. The study compares and contrasts the approaches to lexicon analysis adopted by Russian­ and English­speaking linguistic schools, highlighting the discrepancies between the two. The definitions and features of the concept of lexico-semantic field are reviewed in the article. An attempt is made to define the name and structure of the fields, which include the lexical­semantic group “Names of diseases, in Belarusian and English”. A reasonable distinction between the concepts of lexical-semantic group and thematic group is made, a detailed description of the structure of the LSG ‘Names of diseases’ in Belarusian and English is given in the article.