CHARACTERISTICS OF ECONOMIC LEXIS IN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of lexical-thematic groups in journalistic texts in economic sphere. Two main lexical-thematic groups have been found out: «money» and the lexical-thematic group of words denoting processes and phenomena of financial, economic and bank activities. Words belonging to these groups are mostly borrowed from the Italian and English languages.

Keywords

• lexical-thematic groups
• lexical-semantic groups
• seme
• full and partly-borrowed words
• assimilation
• substitution
• loan-translation