Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication
Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 113] 2023. vi, 237 pp.
Marlén Izquierdo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marlén Izquierdo plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Articles
2023 Cross-linguistic research and corpora: Paving the way for application(s) Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication, Izquierdo, Marlén and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
2022 Engaging with customer’s emotions: A case study in English-Spanish online food advertising Languages in Contrast 22:1, pp. 43–76 | Article
Informational-persuasive discourse may be encoded in promotional strategies through which a given product is described in a positive way to persuade potential customers. For this, evaluation may appeal to reason or may tickle emotions (Cook, 2001). This study compares the way in which… read more
2021 Chapter 6. Developing a corpus-informed tool for Spanish professionals writing specialised texts in English Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations, Lavid-López, Julia, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.), pp. 147–173 | Chapter
This chapter describes the development and use of Promociona-TÉ, a tool for Spanish professionals who need to write herbal tea promotional texts (HTPTs) in English. The tool was developed from a comparable-corpus approach, given the absence of parallel corpora for under-researched domains… read more
2019 P-ACTRES 2.0: A parallel corpus for cross-linguistic research Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications, Doval, Irene and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto (eds.), pp. 215–231 | Chapter
This chapter describes an updated version of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus (P-ACTRES 2.0), an English-Spanish bidirectional corpus that contains over 4 million words. The composition of the corpus is recounted, regarding the number of words in each direction, and the types of texts included together… read more
2013 A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based analysis of how English affixal negation is translated into Spanish and the extent to which the use and distribution of the translations differ from those in non-translated Spanish texts. Empirical data for the study are drawn from the ACTRES Parallel Corpus… read more
2012 Corpus-based functionality and translatability: English–Spanish progressive constructions in contrast and translation Languages in Contrast 12:2, pp. 187–210 | Article
This paper reports on a descriptive study of English and Spanish progressive constructions to identify degrees of common functionality and, therefore, translatability. Here, the functionality of the resource under study is examined contrastively, in order to observe functional correspondences… read more
