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Empirical Translation Studies: From Theory to Practice and Back Again

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When corpora began to be used in a systematic way for the empirical study of translation, Tymoczko (Computerized corpora and the future of translation studies. Meta 43(4):657, 1998) claimed that the appeal of corpus studies lay in their potential “to illuminate both similarity and difference and to investigate in a manageable form the particulars of language-specific phenomena of many different languages and cultures”. Today, the envisioned role of corpora as invaluable repositories of data for carrying out contrastive analyses across languages and cultures is a reality in descriptive as in applied studies.

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Notes

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    Available at: http://www.linguateca.pt/COMPARA/Welcome.

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    Available at: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/research/english-corpus/.

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    Federico Zanettin’s web page can be found at the following URL address: https://sites.google.com/site/federicozanettinnet/cl-htm#TOC-Translation-driven-Bilingual-and-Multilingual-Corpora.

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    Available at: http://sslmitdev-online.sslmit.unibo.it/corpora/corporaproject.php?path=E.P.I.C.

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    http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/motto/index_en.htm.

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    http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm.

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    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-comes-to-an-end.

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    Sara Laviosa

  2. Translation Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Adriana Pagano

  3. Translation Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Hannu Kemppanen

  4. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Laviosa, S., Pagano, A., Kemppanen, H., Ji, M. (2017). Empirical Translation Studies: From Theory to Practice and Back Again. In: Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1969-2_1

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