The provided article reveals the influence of modern linguistic studies on learning the concept of the financial crisis. In linguistic research in recent decades more attention is paid to the creation of a holistic concept of the relationship between language and thinking, the ways of expressing non-linguistic reality, knowledge about the world, the laws of the organization of the "linguistic picture of the world", the thesaurus of an individual. Consequently, taking into consideration above-mentioned issues, the article focuses on the differentiation between text and discourse and peculiarities of economic discourse in linguistics.