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This article presents a mapping of economic translation based on the content of book chapters and articles published by translation professionals, excluding academic publications. Using quantitative and qualitative bibliometric techniques, we analyze a corpus of 115 publications signed by translators, clients, and other specialists and compare their topics with those of academics. First, there is a downward trend in the number of publications by professionals, with the 1995–2005 period being the most productive. The results also show that some of the content discussed is not described in depth or ends up stagnating and differs from that of academics, suggesting that the interests of professionals and academics rarely converge. Suggestions for future improvement measures related to teaching and research are provided to reduce the gap between the two groups of authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the evaluation of specialized phraseological units extraction from a corpus in Spanish. After briefly reviewing the literature on the concepts of terminological unit and specialized phraseological unit, their detection and their extraction, an evaluation protocol is presented and applied to three corpus software interfaces. The evaluation focuses on precision and usability aspects. The results partially confirm the hypothesis that term extractors allow users to extract specialized phraseological units. Finally, a series of suggestions are made to improve such systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Se presenta una introducción en la que el editor discute artículos sobre el tema sobre temas como la traducción de textos institucionales relacionados con los presupuestos, la traducción de documentos contables y las características linguísticas de las pólizas de seguro de automóviles.

The aim of this paper is to identify the texts and domains that business translators usually translate from French into Spanish and vice versa. First, we briefly review the literature on business translation (surveys conducted among professional translators and studies written by scholars in the context of French and Spanish). Although this review gives us an indication of, for example, the kind of documents or domains to which some translator trainers expose their students, or the position of business translation among other types of translation such as legal, technical or literary translation, it does not give us an in-depth understanding of the Spanish market. For this reason we conducted a survey to find out more about business texts and domains. We present our survey-based study, describe the participants and identify the texts and domains that are most often translated. The results point to differences not only in the texts and domains, but also as far as the language combinations are concerned. The results are thus useful in helping translator trainers both to design specialised business translation courses or course modules and as the basis for further research on contrastive analysis of business genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including business translation and terminology and the terminology used in finance.

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The aim of this article is to study the concept of metadiscourse, which may be understood as a set of rhetorical devices used in accordance with the objectives of the communication. Our goal is to explore, on the one hand, how metadiscourse is used by company CEOs, and on the other hand, how it is translated from French into Spanish. The results show that these texts have their own metadiscursive patterns and that translators usually respect their structure, while introducing new types. Furthermore, the results may be used in translation training and business language teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]