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.