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Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus
Abstract
The present paper presents an investigation of financial jargon evident in Norwegian newspapers that can be related to the recent financial crisis. The study is a first step in exploring whether newspapers are useful sources from which to extract Norwegian terminology to be included in for instance termbases. In addition, it will provide a basis for considering whether there may be a need for a planned development of financial terminology in Norway. The paper reports on how financial jargon is used in Norwegian newspapers in relation to the concepts of financial crisis, credit crunch, subprime and hedge fund. In particular, the analysis focuses on whether Norwegian terminology is formed or English terms are maintained to describe these concepts.
Abstract
The present paper presents an investigation of financial jargon evident in Norwegian newspapers that can be related to the recent financial crisis. The study is a first step in exploring whether newspapers are useful sources from which to extract Norwegian terminology to be included in for instance termbases. In addition, it will provide a basis for considering whether there may be a need for a planned development of financial terminology in Norway. The paper reports on how financial jargon is used in Norwegian newspapers in relation to the concepts of financial crisis, credit crunch, subprime and hedge fund. In particular, the analysis focuses on whether Norwegian terminology is formed or English terms are maintained to describe these concepts.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
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Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
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Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
-
Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
-
Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
