An essential reference for Arabic learners who want to be more confident in understanding and using Arabic in a business context, and for Arab learners of business EnglishBusiness Arabic: A Comprehensive Vocabulary contains all the key terms professionals need for translating both from Arabic to English and English to Arabic. Packed with more than 2,000 expressions and coinages commonly used in the workplace, each thematic section includes an alphabetical list of the lexical components necessary to comprehend, translate, write and speak modern business Arabic. Overall, this book is essential for students, international businesspeople and people working in the Arab world who are looking to expand their vocabulary. The book includes both American and British terms and spellings.The second edition includes over 700 new entries and a fully updated English Arabic index.

This research investigates the semantics and pragmatics of demonstratives in two languages, English and Arabic, within the framework of relevance theory. The study applies the fundamental distinction between 'conceptual' and 'procedural' semantics in an attempt to account for the various instantiations of such referring expressions in the two languages. It is argued that demonstratives play a crucial role in aligning the discourse models of the speaker and hearer by encoding procedural semantics instructing the hearer to maintain or create a joint level of attention to the intended referent as opposed to other referential candidates. Within this proposal, it discusses how demonstratives can contribute to both the explicit and the implicit levels of meaning by virtue of the interaction between their encoded semantics and the context in a relevance-driven framework. The study is supported by an analysis of corpus data from both languages in order to supplement theoretical proposals with attested evidence.

An essential reference for Arabic learners who want to be more confident in understanding and using Arabic in a business context, and for Arab learners of business EnglishBusiness Arabic: A Comprehensive Vocabulary contains all the key terms professionals need for translating both from Arabic to English and English to Arabic. Packed with more than 2,000 expressions and coinages commonly used in the workplace, each thematic section includes an alphabetical list of the lexical components necessary to comprehend, translate, write and speak modern business Arabic. Overall, this book is essential for students, international businesspeople and people working in the Arab world who are looking to expand their vocabulary. The book includes both American and British terms and spellings. The second edition includes over 700 new entries and a fully updated English Arabic index.