The Comparative Analysis of English Economic and Business Terms and Their Lithuanian Translation Equivalents

The article presents the comparative analysis of English business and economic terms contained inthe Dictionary of Economics and the text-books on business and management and their Lithuanian translationequivalents. The study was mainly based on the theory of linguistic relativity stating that the same message ishandled differently in different languages. All the terms analyzed were divided into separate groups accordingto their structural and semantic peculiarities as well as the way of denoting the same concept. Major difficultiesencountered in translating English economic and business terms, their sources and ways of facilitating thecomprehension of the most difficult terms are also identified. Special emphasis is made on the analysis ofmetaphoric English terms and their possible translation as a means of developing more flexible thinking habitsbased on associations and alternative approaches to reality.