The Meaningful Component of the Linguocultural Character Type of Business Person: Russian-English Parallels

The article presents the study of synonymy and equivalence of lexemenominants of the linguistic and cultural type «business man» in Russian and English languages on the basis of explanatory dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms, bilingual dictionaries and the corpus of parallel texts in the National Corpus of the Russian Language. According to the results of the study, the synonyms of the word combination деловой человек are identified as follows: бизнесмен, предприниматель, коммерсант, фирмач, делец, деляга, воротила (big businessman). The main English equivalents of this synonymic series are identified as follows: businessman, merchant, owner, employer, operator It was found out that the lexemes businessman, entrepreneur, merchant and the word combination man of business are relatively frequent in the parallel corpus. Feminitives are rather rare or absent. It is concluded that in English the lexeme businessman is the dominant synonymic series. On the material of the parallel corpus the stable correspondence of lexemes entrepreneur and предприниматель, merchant and коммерсант is confirmed. A frequent equivalent of the word combination businessman, not noted in dictionaries, is the word combination a man of business. There is a complete absence of the lexeme entrepreneur among English dictionary equivalents, as well as an obviously insufficient number of equivalents of the lexeme merchant in English-Russian dictionaries. The lexemes businessman, merchant and entrepreneur turn out to be the main nominators of the linguistic and cultural type «business man» in English language culture