Mechanisms for Transferring Economic Terminology in the Unified Dictionary of Economics: A Descriptive and Analytical Study

Abstract

This study seeks to identify the mechanisms involved in transferring economic terminology from foreign languages into Arabic by examining and analyzing these mechanisms in the Unified Dictionary of Economics, one of the specialized dictionaries that has contributed to standardizing Arabic equivalents for economic terms and facilitating their use within the Arab economic domain. The study approaches the economic term as a linguistic and semantic unit associated with a specialized concept, which makes its transfer into Arabic a process that goes beyond direct lexical equivalence to take into account the concept itself, its specialized context, and the characteristics of the target language.