Abstracts
Abstract
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.
Keywords:
- metaphor,
- financial discourse,
- corpus linguistics,
- cognitive semantics,
- ideology
Résumé
L’objectif du présent article est de montrer, à l’aide d’un corpus bilingue français-néerlandais, comment des concepts financiers et économiques identiques sont articulés de manière distincte dans les deux communautés linguistiques. Ce travail vise à montrer que comprendre le choix (en l’occurrence, des métaphores) que fait un auteur au sein du répertoire lexical de la discipline devrait aider les apprenants en langue étrangère et les traducteurs à mieux appréhender le discours financier et économique. Cela devrait les sensibiliser au rôle des différences idéologiques, pragmatiques et cognitives entre les langues dans le choix des métaphores. Les données indiquent qu’une analyse de corpus pourrait contribuer à expliquer l’impact de la culture et d’autres variables communicationnelles sur la façon dont les concepts financiers et économiques sont exprimés, sur le plan lexical, dans la presse.
Mots-clés :
- métaphore,
- discours financier,
- linguistique de corpus,
- sémantique cognitive,
- idéologie
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