Translating figures in the domain of business and economics. A rhetorical role for terminology?

This articles analyses a translation assignment completed by a class of advanced students of ESP enrolled in a postgraduate Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literatures in Italy. The students were asked to translated an article from The Economist displaying the use of figurative language in a subtly ironic way. The article focuses on the translation of terminoliogy, which is given a peculiar figurative value in the ST.