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Enhancing Economic and Business Terminology: Insights from the 4th WU Symposium

Dive into the realm of economic and business terminology through a comprehensive analysis of the "Diccionario de americanismos." This symposium sheds light on the criteria, demarcation, and characteristics of this specialized language, offering a fresh perspective on outsourcing and joint-stock companies while highlighting areas for further research using text corpora and search engines.

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Enhancing Economic and Business Terminology: Insights from the 4th WU Symposium

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  1. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Dictionariesandbeyond 4th WU Symposium in International Business Communication 6 – 8 April 2011, WU Vienna Economic and business terminology in the “Diccionario de americanismos”Franz Rainer & Johannes Schnitzer

  2. The “Diccionario de americanismos” Asociación de Academias de la LenguaEspañola Lima: Santillana 2010 2333 pages Fußzeile

  3. Elaboration processoftheDA

  4. General characteristics of the DA

  5. Tercerización ‘outsourcing’

  6. Criteriaofdemarcation Economic and business terminology Not included: Designationsforprofessions(except trade and banking) Designations for businesses/firms (‘rum destillery’, etc.) Designations for products Specific work-related terms (agriculture, mining, industry) Sociological vocabulary (‘upper class’, ‘poverty’, etc.) Law terminology (leasing contracts, etc.)

  7. Conceptualfields(Σ 1466 terms)

  8. Money (Σ 503)

  9. Trade (Σ 288)

  10. Labour relations (Σ 207)

  11. Doingbusiness (Σ 164)

  12. Machinations (publicsector) (Σ110)

  13. Economy (Σ 86)

  14. Banking & stock market (Σ 62)

  15. Company (Σ 46)

  16. Pemex Homepage

  17. PEMEX - mexicanisms

  18. S.A. de C.V. S.A. de C.V. SociedadAnónima de Capital Variable

  19. ‘Joint-stock company’

  20. ‘Tax number’ Número de identificación fiscal Número de identificación tributaria (clave del) Registro Federal de Contribuyentes RegistroTributarioNacional (número de) RegistroÚnicodelContribuyente (número de) RegistroÚnico de Contribuyentes (número de) RegistroNacional de Contribuyentes (número de) RegistroÚnico de Información Fiscal RolÚnicoNacional RegistroÚnicoTributario CódigoÚnico de IdentificaciónLaboral

  21. ‘Anti-dumping duties’

  22. ‘Preference shares’

  23. ‘Marketing’ (2008)

  24. ‘Marketing’ (2008 vs. 2011) Google

  25. ‘Marketing’ (2011) Google vs. Multidominiohispánico

  26. ‘Sustainable development’ (2008)

  27. ‘Sustainable development’ (2011)

  28. ‘Sustainable’ (2011) Google vs. Multidominiohispánico

  29. Results • Economic and business terminology in the DA • mostly slang and everyday language • even high-frequency terms missing • reason: compiled on the basis of existing dictionaries • What remains to be done: • text-based studies on the basis of corpora • quantitative studies on the basis of search engines

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