Interrelation of scientific and folk economics in the prothteconomic concept MONEY

¹ Orenburg State University, Department of Romance Philology and Methods of Teaching French, 460018 Orenburg Russia
² Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Orenburg branch), Department of Economics and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines, 460000 Orenburg Russia

^* Corresponding author: desire2003@yandex.ru

Abstract

In the paper the concept MONEY is considered to be one in a special class of concepts which we propose to call prothteconomic concepts, as they combine prothtologic (everyday) and academic (economic) elements. The prothtologic element of the concept reveals itself in the common national collective conscience, while the academic component manifests itself in the scientific conscience. The vocabulary used by the common national collective conscience describes the concept under study with different semantic attributes. Proverbs as parameological units fully illustrate the way the common national collective conscience expresses ideas and phenomena. The scientific conscience deals with terminological word stock. The comparison of the prothtologic components of the concept with the economic ones finds out coincidence in the plane of contents. As regards the plane of expression, it differs in a considerable number of instances. So the common national collective conscience has worked out its folk economics which has much in common with scientific economics and is stored in proverbs.