Sobre la equivalencia de términos plurilexemáticos en los textos financieros de la Unión Europea

The translation of European Union texts raises a number of issues in terms of scope and methodology. First, the multilingual environment and the specific language policy of the European Union, based on the principle of linguistic equality (Gibová, 2009), pose challenges regarding the applicability of classic concepts in translation studies such as source text and translation. Second, given that the topics covered are virtually unlimited,
EU texts encompass a wide range of subject areas: legal, economic, financial, technical, etc. – including the relevant specific terminology. Our work will use a trilingual (English, Spanish, and Romanian) set of financial
texts from the European Union in order to highlight a number of interlinguistic typological aspects. More specifically, we will analyze the formation of multi-word units, which represent a fundamental part of specialized language (De Hertog et al., 2012; León Araúz & Cabezas García, 2020) and which have been characterized as language-specific terms (Finkbeiner & Schlücker, 2019), highly cohesive (Dias et al., 1999), and domain-specific (Tercedor Sánchez et al., 2013). Our approach aims to delineate morphological convergences and divergences in multi-word financial terms in three languages with different approaches and statuses regarding term coinage.