COMMON ABBREVIATIONS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES USED IN THE ENGLISH NEWS INTERNET DISCOURSE: TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES
The article focuses on common economic abbreviations used in the Internet texts (Business news section of www.bbc.com). Research shows that the bigger part of the abbreviated forms in the news texts are acronyms and mixed type abbreviations. The article provides translation techniques for top abbreviations on economic issues and gives guidance for translating newly borrowed non-equivalent abbreviations.