PECULIARITIES OF THE LEXIS USED IN FINANCIAL ENGLISH

The world of finance is a highly dynamic and competitive one. Thus, specialists working in this field have to face and cope with new and challenging communication situations all the time. Within this context, English has rapidly become the international language of finance. Initially, Financial English professionals focused solely on the functionality of the language and research into the characteristics of the core lexis used in Financial English was relatively limited. However, things have started to change recently. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to highlight some of the peculiarities of the lexis for specific purposes used in magazine articles covering financial topics (taken from The Economist) as compared to the general vocabulary used in articles covering common everyday issues (taken from The Guardian).