Technical Terminology in Standard Terms and Conditions of Sale: A Corpus-Based Study of High Frequency Nouns and their Collocations

Technical terminology, which comprises individual words and various kinds of more or less fixed word partnerships, constitutes an important part of professional discourse. A good command of domain specific collocations adds to the proficiency in specialist communication in any domain, including comm...

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Main Author: Nataša Gajšt
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Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2015-11-01
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Online Access:http://scriptamanent.sdutsj.edus.si/ScriptaManent/article/view/100
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description Technical terminology, which comprises individual words and various kinds of more or less fixed word partnerships, constitutes an important part of professional discourse. A good command of domain specific collocations adds to the proficiency in specialist communication in any domain, including commerce. The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a corpus-based study of the most common collocations of 16 high-frequency nouns in ‘standard terms and conditions of sale’ as authentic, commerce-related documents. Our research shows that the most frequent nouns form a substantial number of significant collocations which can be considered technical terminology in the field of commerce. In turn, these findings can be used as the basis for designing teaching syllabi and teaching materials for courses in English for commerce and trade.
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title Technical Terminology in Standard Terms and Conditions of Sale: A Corpus-Based Study of High Frequency Nouns and their Collocations
title_full Technical Terminology in Standard Terms and Conditions of Sale: A Corpus-Based Study of High Frequency Nouns and their Collocations
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title_full_unstemmed Technical Terminology in Standard Terms and Conditions of Sale: A Corpus-Based Study of High Frequency Nouns and their Collocations
title_short Technical Terminology in Standard Terms and Conditions of Sale: A Corpus-Based Study of High Frequency Nouns and their Collocations
title_sort technical terminology in standard terms and conditions of sale a corpus based study of high frequency nouns and their collocations
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