Time of upswing and time of crisis in business vocabulary of the late 19th and 20th centuries in selected quotes from the business press Cover Image

Zeit des Aufschwungs und Zeit der Krise im Wirtschaftswortschatz des ausgehenden 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in ausgewählten Zitaten aus der Wirtschaftspresse
Time of upswing and time of crisis in business vocabulary of the late 19th and 20th centuries in selected quotes from the business press

Author(s): Grażyna Strzelecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: language of economy; 19th century; 20th century; upswing and crisis; business press

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on selected quotes taken from the business press of the late 19th and 20th centuries, vocabulary examples from business articles from the years 1885–1886 and 1993–1996, which describe the period of the upswing and later the period of the emerging crisis. They are defined and explained with the help of business dictionaries. The aim is to show how the language of business, especially in the area of trade, developed and changed over a period of around 100 years. The grouping of the vocabulary is intended to give a better overview of the topics covered by the business press. The linguistic benefit of the work lies, as hoped, in a contribution to the diachronic description of the lexicon of the language of business. A comparison with the 20th century shows how the language of the economy developed in the selected area, which words have come out of use, which have been affected by a shift in meaning, and which have remained unchanged to this day.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 1-29
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: German