The Textual Function of Terminology in Business and Finance Discourse

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate the significant role that specialised terms play in the creation of texture and text in Business and Finance discourse. Accordingly, we will explore the suggestion that an additional function could be assigned to terms in addition to those traditionally assigned, i.e. the representative and communicative functions (Cabré 1999). Thus, we will refer to a textual function of terms. This proposal is applied in a contrastive analysis, the results of which are interpreted using the models of Hoey (1991) and Berber Sardinha (1997), in particular the concept of lexical cohesion.