Open AccessCorpus Linguistics and Translation Studies: Interaction and Reaction
Author(s) -
Maeve Olohan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v1i.29
Subject(s) - corpus linguistics , computer science , translation studies , natural language processing , linguistics , applied linguistics , text corpus , translation (biology) , computational linguistics , artificial intelligence , machine translation , dynamic and formal equivalence , example based machine translation , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry , messenger rna , gene
This paper focuses on one particular parallel development in linguistics and translation studies, namely corpus-based analysis of language use. Recent years have seen the compilation of corpora of translations, designed specifically to investigate the language and features of translation, usually by comparing translations with non-translations. Some of the interactions between corpus linguistics and corpus-based translation studies are traced in terms of perceptions of translated texts and underlying assumptions of corpus-based studies. Corpus-based translation studies is placed in the con¬text of current theoretical trends in translation studies and, through brief re¬ference to research which has aimed to investigate potential features of translation, attention is drawn to the importance of contextualising translation by combining corpus-based investigations with other kinds of methodologies and analyses.