PECULIARITIES OF FUNCTIONING OF THE CATEGORY OF CLICHE IN THE ECONOMIC DISCOURSE IN THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article examines a problem of cliched words and phrases in the context of the economic discourse in the Russian and English languages. Characteristic features for both languages, Russian and English, are highlighted and described. The article gives various classifications of cliched units of economic discourse, and also illustrates these units using examples taken from both authentic mass media and dictionaries in Russian and English. The theoretical part of the given article combines the available knowledge and assumptions on this aspect of various scientists and researchers, while the practical part demonstrates the application of this knowledge to specific examples, taken from the authentic sentences of economic discourse. The authors compare trends for Russian and English languages characteristic of economic discourse, both common and taken for each individual language. It must be mentioned that a selection of economic cliched units is made in the context of sentences taken from media articles, mainly from the international Internet network.