The edited volume under review, containing a selection of papers presented at the 2018 International Symposium PaCor (Parallel Corpora and Applications) in Madrid, brings together studies that use corpus linguistic methodology, techniques, and tools for translation, interpreting, and contrastive research. It provides an overview of developments and convincingly demonstrates how Translation Studies and contrastive linguistics research can benefit from recent advances in corpus linguistics. Almost twenty years ago, Baker stated in her seminal paper that access to large corpora and corpus linguistic methods will mark “a turning point in the history” of Translation Studies (1993, 235). This volume joins other more recent publications (e.g., Russo, Bendazzoli, and Defrancq 2018; Doval and Nieto 2019; Wang, Lim, and Li 2021) in providing evidence that this turning point is now in the past and that corpus linguistics and Translation Studies/contrastive research can be considered a good match.

References

Baker, Mona

1993 “Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies – Implications and Applications.” In Text and Technology, edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis, and Elena Tognini-Bonelli, 233–250. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Doval, Irene, and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto

eds. 2019 Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New Resources and Applications (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 90). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Russo, Mariachiara, Claudio Bendazzoli, and Bart Defrancq

eds. 2018 Making Way in Corpus-based Interpreting Studies. Singapore: Springer.

Wang, Vincent X., Lily Lim, and Defeng Li

eds. 2021 New Perspectives on Corpus Translation Studies. Singapore: Springer.