Article published in:
Toward Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Sergey Tyulenev and Binghan Zheng
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:2] 2017
► pp. 231–252

Corpus-based methods for Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies

Mapping differences and similarities with traditional and innovative tools

| Universitat Jaume I

Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS1) encompasses all research processes resulting from the comparison of theories, products, and practices associated with the tasks performed by translators and interpreters during their work. A specific set of comparative methods and tools are derived from Corpus-based Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS2). In an attempt to conduct CTIS1 from a CTIS2 perspective, this article applies (modern diachronic) corpus-based ideas, such as priming theory and corpus tools, to build a comparative methodology and analysis with the European Comparable and Parallel Corpus (ECPC) archive. The article focuses on the notions of difference and similarity to better understand the field.

Keywords: Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS1), Corpus-based Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS2), Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS), ECPC, methodology
Article outline
  • 1.CTIS1 and CTIS2
  • 2.Lexical priming: A corpus-based theory
  • 3.Corpus-based research tools
  • 4.The study
    • 4.1Aims and specific tools chosen for the analysis
    • 4.2The ECPC Archive
    • 4.3Outline of the methodology
    • 4.4Descriptive statistics
    • 4.5Lock keyword analysis
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 25 October 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.12.2.03cal
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