A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Romanian and English Central Bank Reports
A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Romanian and English Central Bank Reports

Summary/Abstract: The present research article is a cross-linguistic approach to economics discourse lexis, more exactly to the expression of business trends in Romanian and English. The analysis focuses on the use of conceptual metaphors in expressing increase and decrease of economic indicators such as price, GDP, unemployment, etc. and uses as corpus the Romanian and English Central Bank reports. Starting from Lakoff and Johnson's definition and Deignan, Gabrys and Solska's classification of conceptual metaphors, several types of such linguistic expressions are identified and compared. The findings of the research indicate that the metaphors used to express economic trends are largely the same between the two languages but differ in terms of frequency and lexical realisation. The study is intended to prove helpful to Romanian speaking economists reading and writing in English, as well as to translators and ESP students.

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