ATTRIBUTIVE COMBINABILITY OF THE NOUN "BUSINESS" IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: LINGUO-COGNITIVE ASPECT
The article presents some aspects of the representation of one of the basic American-English concepts - the concept BUSINESS, namely, the analysis of the attributive combinability with the lexeme BUSINESS from the perspective of American’s attitude towards business, of the role played by business in all spheres of American life. The importance of the concept BUSINESS in Anglo-Saxon and, especially, in American lingual culture causes the non-stopping interest to the study and description of its representation in the English language, particularly, in its American variant. The authors try to reveal various features of the concept with the help of the collocation analysis of the noun BUSINESS, that is, its combination with adjectives, meaning different properties and shades of business. Mass media articles, commercial and business materials from the Internet-sites and forums, as well as American fiction on the subject, dictionaries of American English served as sources of the factual language material, from which a considerable number of combinations «ADJECTIVE + BUSINESS» were taken and analyzed. It has been stated, that all the word-combinations «ADJECTIVE + BUSINESS» fall into five semantic groups, each revealing their peculiarities from the point of view of their reflection in the minds of American people, showing most typical associations. Everything is illustrated by numerous examples, which demonstrate that Americans perceive business, above all, as an entertaining and giving a good profit sphere.