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Publication details [#865]
Halverson, Sandra L. 1998. Translation Studies and representative corpora: establishing links between translation corpora, theoretical/descriptive categories and a conception of the object of study. Meta 43 (4) : 494–514.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
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Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of representativeness in the creation of general translation corpora. In the course of an in-depth examination of the stages involved in the selection of texts which adequately represent the target population, it demonstrates that prototype categories are better suited than the all-or-none classical ones to reconcile existing theoretical statements about what constitutes legitimate data in Translation Studies with the new methodology developed by the corpus-based approach.
Source : Abstract in journal