Semantic and grammatical features of the languages of entrepreneurship practices

Abstract

Social phenomena in the first stages of their comprehension are investigated using general scientific methods, which are methods of the natural sciences. This leads to a multiplicity of concepts’ definitions, which manifests a crisis of their semantic interpretation. The result is numerous “pragmatic turns” in various humanities. This study aims to identify the structure of the language of entrepreneurship practices. Methods employed are morphological and semantic analyses of English terms practitioner entrepreneurs and researchers of entrepreneurship practices use. Data are obtained from Google and OpenAlex. Academics` studies of entrepreneurship-as-practice were analyzed using PolyAnalyst. The results are: (1) the language of practitioners uses terms to denote ad hoc technical aspects of business practices; (2) concepts were discovered that express the syncretism of the actor and their practice; (3) preferential users of dictionaries of practices were identified; (4) the most commonly used interpretative terms of academics` studies of entrepreneurship-as-practice were mapped.