On the problem of defining the concepts: military sublanguage, military lexicon, military terminology

<p><strong>Context and relevance.</strong> Over the past 30 years, the number of foreign military specialists who are trained in Russia has been constantly increasing. The expansion of the sphere of educational services correlates with the promotion of the Russian language abroad, partnership in the political and military sphere. At the same time, there is a contradiction between a rigid and regulated military system, manifested in universities of the Ministry of Defense by excessive formalization of classes, the use of mainly traditional methods and techniques of training, on the one hand, and the need to train a graduate - a successful specialist, with a rich palette of soft skills that can quickly adapt to changing conditions and make decisions quickly, related to the life of subordinates, memorize and operate with a large amount of information - on the other. Accordingly, the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language for cadets of the preparatory department and the following courses should be distinguished by flexibility, adaptability, ethnospecific and professionally oriented orientation. The article discusses the problem of defining a military terminology system within the framework of terminological lexicography. The <strong>purpose</strong> of the article is to consider the definitions of the terms <em>military sublanguage, military vocabulary, military term system</em> as a basic, preliminary stage of understanding your own process of pedagogical design and creating an interactive dictionary of military vocabulary for cadets of the preparatory department of universities of the Ministry of Defense. <strong>Hypothesis.</strong> The concepts of "military vocabulary" and "military term" are ambiguous, historically changeable, the border between the term and non-term is mobile and is due to extralinguistic circumstances: political situation, militaristic policy, scientific and technological progress, etc. <strong>Methods and materials.</strong> The study used general scientific methods of analysis, systematization, deduction, as well as private scientific methods - linguistic description, pedagogical design. <strong>Results.</strong> There is no generally recognized classification of military terminology in linguistics, which necessitates a multidimensional study of military terminological units. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> In the process of training foreign military specialists in universities of the Ministry of Defense, it is necessary to master not only terminological units, but also military argos, jargon, vulgarisms, colloquialisms, etc., which are actively used in oral discourse. Starting from the preparatory course, it is advisable to place methodological and methodological principles that imply the study of the language in all its wealth through its integration into the professional sphere as the basis of the linguistic paradigm for teaching the Russian language as a foreign military term system in specialized universities.</p>