Translating Multi-word Business Terms from English into Arabic: A Study of Semantic Loans

Abstract

This distinct subject aims at discovering the accuracies of business terminology translation into Arabic. Its focus is on creating and translating business terms instead of texts. The researcher investigates a corpus of banking and trade terms confirmed by Jordan Academy of Arabic. The article begins with an introduction on business terminology and translation; it also deals with the relation between globalization of knowledge and translation actions. Since loan translation or semantic loans is the core of this study, a deliberate clarification of this linguistic phenomenon is elucidated. Through data analysis, the researcher concludes that semantic loan, as a translation strategy, has been very dominant in creating and integrating new neologisms into Arabic compared to the infrequent use of lexical loan.