Keyword: «foreign language professional discourse»

This article examines the characteristics of modern foreign-language professional discourse, the issues of which are widely covered in the works of linguists. The article provides a list of certain areas of activity that are of the greatest interest to researchers, gives a classification of the most significant of them on the example of various languages, indicates the names of individual works of scientists. It is noted that one of the important characteristics of modern foreign-language professional discourse includes certain linguistic means, including metaphorical expressions that function in this kind of discourse.