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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION. Dictionaries and beyond 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.
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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
The “Diccionario de americanismos” Asociación de Academias de la LenguaEspañola Lima: Santillana 2010 2333 pages Fußzeile
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.)
S.A. de C.V. S.A. de C.V. SociedadAnónima de Capital Variable
‘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
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