The research is devoted to the phraseological terms that are encountered in English
economic texts. The research analyzed lexical-semantic, cognitive, pragmatic, and
linguistic-cultural peculiarities of phraseological units. This research extracts 50
phraseological terms from papers in linguistics, mass media materials, business and
professional literature on economics. They were distinguished through four
phraseological and semantic fields: “monetary relations”, “buying and selling”,
“business and management”, and “economic and production relations”. The dominant
term “money” was determined. This term has a conceptual meaning, expressed by the
positive and negative connotative marking. Phraseological units mean abstract things
that take a shape within a specific context. This research explains the use of
toponyms, anthroponyms, and zoonyms in phraseological units, as well as the
presence of occasional lexemes. Other aspects that were addressed include the main
origins of economic phraseological units (mythology, real-life events, characters and
persons, literary works, religion), the ethnic, psychological, socio-political and
cultural constants of the English economic sphere.
