Corpus-based translation studies : : theory, findings, applications / / Sara Laviosa.

• Superior document: Approaches to Translation Studies
• VerfasserIn: Laviosa, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Translation Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical overview -- 2.1 Corpus linguistics -- 2.2 Descriptive Translation Studies -- 2.3 Corpora: a new methodology in Translation Studies -- 2.4 The corpus-based approach: the dawn of a new paradigm -- 3. Corpus-based Translation Studies: the theory -- 3.1 Why we study translation through corpora -- 3.2 What we study through corpora -- 3.3 How we study translation through corpora -- 4. Corpus-based Translation Studies: the findings -- 4.1 A corpus typology for Translation Studies -- 4.2 Empirical findings -- 4.2.1 The universals of translation: before the advent of corpora -- 4.2.1.1 Simplification -- 4.2.1.2 Explicitation -- 4.2.1.3 Normalisation -- 4.2.2 The universals of translation: after the advent of corpora -- 4.2.2.1 Investigating simplification with the English Comparable Corpus -- 4.2.2.2 Explicitation in translational English and translational Norwegian -- 4.2.2.3 Normalisation in literary translations -- 4.2.2.4 Levelling out and convergence: new universals? -- 4.2.2.5 More universals-based studies -- 4.2.3 Universals: no longer a tenable notion? -- 4.2.4 Over and above the study of universals -- 4.2.4.1 Translation shifts and translation norms -- 4.2.4.2 Disambiguation of polysemy -- 4.2.4.3 The style of literary translators -- 4.2.4.4 Keywords in translational English -- 4.2.4.5 Towards a typology of interlingual translation -- 4.2.5 At the interface with Descriptive Translation Studies: contrastive analysis -- 5. Corpus-based Translation Studies: the applications -- 5.1 Training translators with bilingual comparable corpora -- 5.2 Contrastive parallel descriptions -- 5.3 Training translators with target language monolingual corpora -- 5.4 Corpora as resources for the professional transIator.

5.5 At the interface with applied Translation Studies: foreign language teaching -- 6. Overview of research in progress -- 6.1 Descriptive corpus-based Translation Studies -- 6.2 More corpora and better navigation tools -- 6.3 Corpus research: a paradigm within a paradigm -- Bibliography.