Handbook of Business Communication

Dagmar Gromann and Johannes Schnitzer

23Business lexicography

1.Introduction

2.A comprehensive overview of specialized lexicography

3.Systemizing business terminology and composing business dictionaries

4.Open questions and quality issues

5.Conclusion

1Introduction

In order to be effective, business communication relies heavily on specialized language. Without it, the meaning of the rules governing business practice and theory could not be expressed clearly, and proper understanding of them would be impossible. Thus, resources for the documentation of specialized expressions, that is, their usage and meaning, are vital in ensuring effective business communication. Research in that area ranges from corpus analysis of business language (e.g., Fischer-Starcke ...