The use of English initialisms and abbreviations in the field of pharmaceutical business communication in Spanish

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ID20395142
AuthorsCarmen Lujan García (0000-0001-7050-777X, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, corresponding author), Carmen Luján-García (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
Year2020
Volume26
Issue1
Pages60-81
Publication date2020-06-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0929-9971 • E-ISSN: 1569-9994
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/term.00042.luj
OpenAlexW3034529154
LanguageEN
References cited11

The present paper deals with the use of English initialisms and abbreviations in the professional field of pharmaceutical business communication in Spanish. This specialized area has not yet been previously examined, and the use of initialisms and abbreviations is becoming more and more extended. The corpus consisted in an up-to-date list of thirty-seven shortened forms, which was extracted from a digital magazine addressed to pharmacists. In order to document the use of the initialisms, acronyms and abbreviations examined in Spanish, a combined analysis was carried out: firstly, the above mentioned list of initialisms and acronyms from the online magazine www.correofarmaceutico.com provided evidence about their use in written language; and secondly, the twenty-one pharmacists who answered our questionnaire provided data about practitioners’ familiarity with and the actual usage of these lexical items

Business · Business communication · Linguistics · Communication · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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