著者

水野 修身

出版者

埼玉学園大学

雑誌

埼玉学園大学紀要 経営学部篇 (ISSN:13470523)

巻号頁・発行日

no.2, pp.69-81, 2002-12

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Phrasal verbs are frequently used in current English, for example, in newspapers and magazines as well as in colloquialism and novels. The main purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze phrasal verbs used in the economic articles of The Japan Times, and to clarify the characteristics on the basis of the investigation. In this study, the present writer investigated the articles related to economy and business in the thirty issues of The Japan Times, which were published in April and June, 2002. As a result, 315 phrasal verbs were picked up as seen in the attached table. Those phrasal verbs are classified under 27 items related to economic activities or phenomena, such as transaction, investment, production, and financial debt. It is evident that there are a remarkable number of phrasal verbs which are peculiar to business and economy in the economic articles in The Japan Times. It is also revealed that a variety of economic activites or phenomena can be expressed more vividly and concretely in current English by using those phrasal verbs.