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RR 2006/414 Webster's New World English-Spanish/ Spanish-English Business Dictionary Steven M. Kaplan Wiley Indianapolis, IN 2006 ix + 724 pp. ISBN 0 471 71994 3 £22.95; $34.95
Keywords Business enterprises, Dictionaries, English language, Spanish language
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120610709493
"Habla español?/Do you speak Spanish? Habla inglés?/Do you speak English? Habla de negocios?/ Do you speak business?" This is the slogan of the English-Spanish/Spanish-English business dictionary launched by Wiley under the Webster label and compiled by Steven M. Kaplan. Wiley presents its first bilingual dictionary of this type specializing in economics and finance, representing an unprecedented effort to surmount the language barriers among business experts.
The dictionary contains 80,000 entries for terms of common use in the business world and more than 100,000 translations from fields such as accounting, advertising, commerce, economics, e-commerce, international trade, tax, securities, banking, real estate, management and insurance. These terms have been extracted not only from traditional specialized sources, but also the following: statements, filings, textbooks, treaties and theses amongst others and from modern reference materials such as Usenet posting and blogs from the internet.
The Dictionary is an incredibly exhaustive tool; indeed, exhaustiveness is one of its most outstanding characteristics, the dictionary including almost exclusive terms of business jargon, for instance Direct Trust or Immunity from Taxation, alongside others from daily and less specialized language such as Leakage or Bill, as well as common use terms that appear in economic,...