Some Nouns of Financial Income in English: A Componential Analysis

Financial income is considered as on of the main fields in economics. The present study deals with some nouns of financial income in English. Nouns of financial income are difficult to understand and the main reason that leads to this difficulty is that some nouns have multiple meanings making it difficult to choose and understand the correct meaning in the appropriate context. So, the present study aims at defining and describing the selected financial income nouns as well as determining the use of componential to show the distinctive features of the selected financial income nouns. This study adopts a qualitative descriptive method and the data has been collected through using several dictionaries. Employing Leech’s (1981) method of componential analysis of meaning; the procedure of the analysis involves defining )7) nouns of financial income and analyzing them through using specific symbols like + (present), – (absent) and ± (neutral) to show the distinguishing features among these nouns. The features that are used to show the differences between the selected nouns are an extra amount of money, paying for services, paid by an organization, money paid/ received, regular incoming payment, irregular incoming payment and in order to make up for losses. This study comes to conclusion that some nouns of financial income are broad and are partial synonyms; each of which has a distinctive feature that makes it different from other synonyms.