Means of Verbalizing Business Realia in 2000–2025 from the Perspective of Dynamic Systems Approach

Aim. The purpose of the article is to reveal and analyze the changes in the English business vocabulary in 2000–2025, the driving factors of linguistic evolution, and to identify the intralinguistic processes activated to adapt this (sub)system to the changing environmental conditions.

Methodology. The paper analyzes a corpus of means expressing business realia selected from about 3,000 popular words. The study presents an analysis of their thematic affiliation, the degree of importance of each thematic block, and the adaptation processes involved. The main research methods are methods of linguistic observation and description, structural and functional analysis, comparative historical analysis, quantitative estimation.

Results. As a result of the research, the main trends in the evolution of the lexical (sub)system of business English were determined, conclusions were drawn about the current ways of self- pres-ervation and integrity of the said system within certain dynamic processes, and the thesis of their interconnection with changes in public consciousness was confirmed.

Research implications include the disclosure of the dynamic systems properties of the business English lexical (sub)system considering synchronic and diachronic aspects, specification of intralinguistic processes and position trajectories of popular lexemes in the lexico-semantic space of modern English.

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