Ji / Oakes / Defeng Corpus Methodologies Explained

An empirical approach to translation studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-43864-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies

This book introduces the latest advances in Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS), a thriving subfield of Translation Studies which forms an important part of both translator training and empirical translation research. Largely empirical and exploratory, a distinctive feature of CBTS is the development and exploration of quantitative linguistic data in search of useful patterns of variation and change in translation. With the introduction of textual statistics to Translation Studies, CBTS has geared towards a new research direction that is more systematic in the identification of translation patterns; and more explanatory of any linguistic variations identified in translations. The book traces the advances from the advent of language corpora in translation studies, to the new textual dimensions and shift towards a probability-variation model. Such advances made in CBTS have enabled in-depth analyses of translation by establishing useful links between a translation and the social and cultural context in which the translation is produced, circulated and consumed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ji, Meng

Oakes, Michael

Defeng, Li

Hareide, Lidun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Early Empirical Studies of Translation – Prior to the Advent of Language Corpora 2. Language Corpora and Theoretical Advances of Corpus-Based Translation Studies 3. Corpus Exploration of New Textual Dimensions in Translations 4. Shift towards a Probability-Variation Model for Theoretical Translation Studies 5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Meng Ji is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia. Her key research insterests are in Translation and Cross-Cultural Studies, Research Methodologies, Computational /Corpus Lexicography and Phraseology, Historical Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics (Spanish/English/Chinese/Japanese) and Digital Humanities.