Abstract
The economic usefulness of abbreviations has become essential as language tools in human society, especially for international economic and business activities. This study has explored the semantic challenges of abbreviations of Arabic economic and business terms for third-grade undergraduates majoring in Arabic language without basic backgrounds in the economy and business in China. The present study adopted a quantitative study design to test 30 students’ abilities in understanding abbreviations. The data analysis used simple mathematical statistics to calculate results and comprehensive analysis within terminological frameworks with interdisciplinary semantic theories to mainly analyze correct answers and students’ answers. Thus, we have found that three-quarters of students faced varying degrees of semantic challenges in the abbreviations of Arabic economic and business terms. In this regard, the current study will improve students’ understanding of abbreviations, and remind instructors in the courses of Arabic for business purposes to explain such knowledge.
Highlights
Over the last few decades, modern languages have shown a trend toward ‘economical use’, which entails transmitting the most amount of data per unit of time (Ulitkin, Filipova, Ivanova, & Babaev, 2020)
The main semantic challenges displayed First, it was difficult for students to distinguish similar abbreviations under the same semantic classifications with one knowledge ontology, which had subtle differences in semantics; secondly, relative antonyms for students were a noteworthy issue in handling semantic relations; thirdly, the "hidden" cognitive semantic challenge was to correspond to English abbreviations and full denominations in Arabic for students in China, since an abbreviation involved the comprehension of three languages
The present study was mainly focused on finding semantic challenges caused by abbreviations of Arabic economic and business terms for undergraduates in China
Summary
Over the last few decades, modern languages have shown a trend toward ‘economical use’, which entails transmitting the most amount of data per unit of time (Ulitkin, Filipova, Ivanova, & Babaev, 2020). Arabic economic and business terms are compound words as well as multi-word expressions that in economic and business contexts (Vasuchenko, 2011) are given specific concepts based on the Arabic language Those terms can represent a particular concept with completeness and accuracy, but sometimes they are cumbersome in the process of usage, so that short versions are needed (Ulitkin, Filipova, Ivanova, & Babaev, 2020). Such forms can reduce the time (Sigacheva, Makayev, Makayeva, & Gainanova, 2021) of business work and make both parties of the trade improve work efficiency
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