Resumen de On Going Beyond the Literal: Translating Metaphorical Conceptualizations in Financial Discourse

Laurent Nicaise

• This article, through a bilingual French-Dutch corpus, looks at how identical financial-economic concepts are articulated distinctively in the two language communities. The article shows that understanding why an author makes a particular (metaphorical) choice in the lexical repertoire of the discipline could provide language learners and translators with knowledge that will foster their understanding of financial-economic discourse and raise their awareness of ideological, pragmatic and cognitive differences between languages in the role of metaphors. The data indicate that a corpus analysis may contribute to explaining the impact of culture and other communication variables on the lexical realizations of financial-economic concepts in the press.

  
  
  Plan de l'article
  
  1. Introduction
  2. Aims and method
  3. Analysis and results
  3.1. Overall distribution of source domains
  3.1.1. Orientational metaphors
  3.1.2. WAR
  3.1.3. HEALTH
  3.1.4. MOBILITY
  3.1.5. SPORTS
  3.1.6. ANIMALS
  3.1.7. ROMANCE
  3.1.8. WEATHER
  3.2. Specific concepts
  3.2.1. TAKE-OVER
  3.2.2. RESTRUCTURING
  3.2.3. DAILY SHARE PRICE EVOLUTION
  4. Discussion
  5. Concluding remarks