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Breeze, Ruth. 2012. Verb-particle constructions in the language of business and finance. Language Value 4 (1) : 84–96. 13 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

This piece of research is concerned with the teaching of phrasal verbs to non-native speakers of English. The author carries out a search in two corpora of texts related to economics and finance in order to identify verb particle constructions with UP, DOWN, AHEAD, BACK, OUT, and OFF, which are particularly frequent in this kind of texts. Throughout the article, the author relates the principal conceptual metaphors associated with these particles in the language domain of financial reports. The author puts forwards exercises for the teaching of phrasal verbs that range from tasks related to the analysis of cognitive metaphors to the analysis of real examples based on such metaphors.