THE CONCEPT OF THE LINGUISTIC SUPPORT FOR FORCES

The author presents the concept of the linguistic support for forces, which is fundamental for the conceptual construct of the military translation theory. The linguistic support for forces (LSF) is a complex of special measures, tasks, procedures and processes of practical and fundamental nature in the military-political, military-technical and special military fields of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They are planned and carried out to accomplish intercultural (communicative & mediational), linguo-geographical (informational & analytic), military-terminological (normative & codifying), linguo-pedagogical (didactic & diagnostic) and linguo-research (scholarly) functions that require military-professional level of bilingual philological competence of performers.