Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

• Other Authors: Granger, Sylviane (Editor), Lerot, Jacques (Editor), Petch-Tyson, Stephanie (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; New York Rodopi 2003
• Edition: Print book : Conference publication : English
• Series: Approaches to translation studies, v. 20
• Subjects: Contrastive linguistics > Congresses; Translating and interpreting > Congresses; Computational linguistics > Congresses
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• Item Description: Silibus PUU-APB (LG701 & LG702)_MESY.8; Papers resulting from a conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1999.
• Physical Description: 219 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9789042010468

Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high degree of complementarity between the two fields in terms of research methodology, interests and objectives. Offering theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives, the articles show how translation and contrastive approaches to grammar, lexis and discourse can be harmoniously combined through the use of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora and how contrastive information needs to inform translation research and vice versa. The notion of contrastive linguistics adopted here is broad; thus, alongside comparisons of Malay/English idioms and the French imparfait and its English equivalents, there are articles comparing different varieties of French, and sign language with spoken language. This collection should be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. In addition, the section on corpus-based teaching applications will be of great value to teachers of translation and contrastive linguistics.