THE CONCEPT SCARCITY IN THE ENGLISH ECONOMIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article explores the name and content of the concept SCARCITY in the English economic discourse. The content of the concept includes a set of semantic features and is motivated by the basic feature “an inadequate amount” with a negatively evaluated property “less than the norm”. These features are profiled in the domains ECONOMY and MATHEMATICS and motivate the corresponding cognitive features and its conceptual relations with other concepts in the discourse.