Estudo do significado de alguns termos da linguagem bancária - caso Banco Austral

Abstract

This work on Studying the meaning of some terms in banking language - Banco Austral Case consists of five chapters. In Chapter I, Introduction, a brief contextualization of the subject under study is given, explaining what has happened in banking language and advancing with some ideas presented by LOPES (1999) on the issue of "linguistic engineering"; the relevance of the work is presented; the motivation is highlighted, the problem is formulated, the hypotheses and the delimitation of the subject are presented and, finally, reference is made to the objectives of the work. Chapter II, Research Methodology, describes the mechanism used to compile the corpus and the criteria used to select the informants. Chapter III, Bibliographic Review, defines and discusses the concepts of language, language, lexicon, terminological unit, neology - neologism and borrowing, which are used to explain various phenomena that occur in the terms used by Banco Austral (BAU) employees. In Chapter IV, Data Analysis, the concepts are applied to explain the phenomena occurring in the corpus under study, i.e. the terminological and non-terminological terms selected after the survey are analyzed. In this analysis, reference is made to aspects related to foreignness; suffixation in loans; semantic neologisms; acronyms formed from the English language; hybrid formations and, finally, the terminological framework is presented, taking into account the definition of the terms, their grammatical category, the source and the domain to which they belong.(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)