Fraile Vicente, Esther
The relationship between the typical errors in the translation of business idioms and their lexicographical treatment
FRAILE VICENTE, Esther. “The relationship between the typical errors in the translation of business idioms and their lexicographical treatment”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 20 (Nov. 2007). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 65-93
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6370
DOI: 10.14198/raei.2007.20.04
ISSN: 0214-4808
Abstract: 
This essay is based on the complexity involved in the translation of English
business idioms into Spanish, due to the fact that these linguistic constructions
are created with metaphors and based on associations of meaning that have not
yet been studied sufficiently. By performing a translation experiment with my
students, some conclusions are drawn regarding the difficulties inexperienced
translators face and how dictionaries should cope with them. It is suggested that,
most general and specialized dictionaries do not offer exact translation
equivalents for idioms, but present versions that either belong to a different
language level, show a lost of semantic content, have a different frequency, are
archaic or erroneous. To solve these limitations, the lexicographical resources
should not only include idioms as lemmas, but also offer more syntactic-semantic
information with them and to structure it more systematically.
Keywords:Lenguaje de los negocios, Traducción, Errores, Lengua inglesa, Lengua española, Lenguajes especializados, Diccionarios, Lexicografía
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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