José Mateo
List of John Benjamins publications for which José Mateo plays a role.
Articles
2014 Neonyms for a crisis: Cognitive, terminological and socio-pragmatic aspects in the translation of new financial terms into Spanish Babel 60:4, pp. 405–424 | Article
The current economic and financial crisis apart from impoverishing many countries has paradoxically enriched language by coining a multitude of new terms to explain and define the new situation. However, due to different cognitive, terminological and socio-pragmatic constraints, many of these… read more
2013 Towards a cross-cultural pragmatic taxonomy of insults Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 1:1, pp. 87–114 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explain the use of insults from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To that end, our analysis takes into consideration four variables that, we believe, play a major role in how insults are produced an interpreted: (a) the conventional or innovative nature of the insult;… read more
1993 The Translation of Business English Discourse into Spanish Babel 39:1, pp. 11–20 | Article
A l'heure actuelle, la majorité des traductions sont effectuées dans un but technique et on considère en général que ce type de traduction est particulièrement facile. Pourtant, il suffit de lire des traductions de mode d'emploi, d'annonces publicitaires techniques, etc., pour se rendre compte que… read more