RT Journal Article
T1 Translation in Financial Spanish: A Corpus-based Study on the use of Metaphor
A1 Álvarez García, Carmen
K1 Translator training
K1 Metaphor
K1 Economic language
K1 Financial language
K1 Corpus-based study
AB This paper presents a study aimed to analyse variation in one of the characteristics commonly attributed to economic and financial language, the frequent use of metaphor as an expressive resource, in order to help the translation into Spanish of economic texts and its training. To this end, a corpus of texts has been compiled pertaining to economic and, more specifically, financial language. The sources have been the European Central Bank, Spanish press, whether specialised in economics or generalist, and websites of different financial institutions. The texts included in the studied corpus deal with the same subject matter, more specifically the regulation of banking transfers between countries in the Eurozone, ruled by the Single EuroPayments Area legislation, and can be classified into different textual genres. The findings show significant variation in the use of metaphor in the texts studied depending on the type of discourse within which the text is framed, which has implications for the teaching of translation and for the profession itself.
PB Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
SN 2342-7205
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24926
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24926
LA en
NO Álvarez García, C. (2019) Translation in Financial Spanish: A Corpus - Based Study on the Use of Metaphor. Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E, 6. 331 – 356.
NO Departamento de Filología y Traducción
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026