This paper is a corpus-driven analysis conducted on a specifically build monolingual corpus that aims to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the Italian special language of economics and finance and its features. Specifically, the interest of this work is the identification of the terminology of Anglo-American origin, the anglicisms, used and spread in the Italian special language of economics finance since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2008, an event whose global reach has greatly impacted not only our country’s and continent’s financial system but our everyday life as well. The data will be observed and analysed from a quantitative perspective, focusing on the frequency rate, and from a qualitative perspective as well, describing the features of occurrence of the terminology of interest. This research focuses on first identifying and then analysing the anglicisms that have entered the Italian special language of economics and finance served as a term of comparison for the Italian occurrences. To make the reference corpus balanced and a good term of comparison, the articles have been collected from four newspapers focusing on economics and finance, two of British and two of American origin, aiming at a varied audience.

Authors:
Giulia Magazzù, D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara, Italy

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Giulia Magazzù is a University Postdoctoral Fellow or Instructor at University “Gabriele d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara in Italy

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