# Financial language and, more rarely, financial technolect (financial (market) terminology, financial technolect)

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- Modified: 2023-07-25T21:01:41+00:00
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## Definition

Words, expressions and idioms (jargon) that are - or used to be - common in the financial world and - are immediately understood by those working there in their sense, in their meaning. - More than in other specialized languages - with the possible exception of information technology - English - formerly French and before that Italian - vocabulary accumulates in financial language today. Linguists distinguish between - displacing anglicisms, such as banker, cash flow, - differentiating anglicisms, such as bubble economy, blue chips and - supplementing anglicisms, such as Airbus, oldtimer. - It should be noted, however, especially in the case of the group of displacing anglicisms, that they acquired a very special conceptual content through frequent use in the financial world. By using a German word, these expressions - such as container banking by container bank - cannot always be rendered accurately. - As one can clearly see from their publications, many of the linguists (philologists) who fiercely criticize financial language are ultimately unaware of the individual characteristics - namely, units of thought that include very specific properties and contexts - that a technical term has taken on in the practice of the financial world. - This, of course, does not exclude criticism of the professional language of the financial world; especially when terms and language formulations (phrasing, verbalization) are deliberately used to disguise unpleasant facts (euphemisms; misms: the replacement of an indirect, mild or vague expression for one which unmistakably and clearly denotes an unpleasant fact). - See acataphasia, analyst rating, anglicisms, prudential mechanism, uniform, stock market language, financial industry, financial world, linguistic imperialism, intelligibility. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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