This paper aims at analysing the way in which figurative language, namely business
metaphors are different or similar in six languages: Romanian, English, French, Spanish …

The aim of this paper is to present the findings of an experiment with MA students in English
Philology, carried out during the translations class included in their academic curriculum …

Business students are not fully aware of the intrinsic relation between language and culture,
applied to business language genre. Business English language as a genre in itself has …

Business metaphors explained… or how it all started. The whole idea of the current project
took shape about four years ago, as a result of the numerous studies and sustained …

EFL students, especially those who have reached an upper-intermediate to advanced level,
have the tendency of learning a foreign language as a system per se, often without paying …

The paper deals with the metaphorical aspect of business and economic texts with special
focus on money metaphors. According to cognitive linguistic approach metaphors are …

This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations
and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from …

Almost any area of linguistics can be studied from a use perspective and the corpus-based
approach provides tools and methods that are effective for such investigations. A corpus …

The current dictionary is the result of twenty years of teaching and researching English for
Specific Purposes, translating and interpreting in the field of business, banking and finance …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of one of the theoretical frameworks that encode the
selectional constraints in the lexicon, the Generative Lexicon theory. We will review the …