Incorporating Corpora

The Linguist and the Translator
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-85359-986-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

The emergence of studies of translation based on electronic corpora has been one of the most interesting and fruitful developments in Translation Studies in recent years. But the origins of such studies can be traced back through many decades, as this volume sets out to establish. Covering a number of European languages including Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian, as well as French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish, the book presents many new studies of translation patterns using parallel corpora focusing on particular linguistic features. The studies reveal systemic differences which are in turn, of relevance to the linguistic description of the languages concerned, as well as to translator training. Also included are broader-ranging contributions on the concept of translation universals, including a critical perspective on this popular topic. [127 words]

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderman, Gunilla

Rogers, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Linguist and the Translator - Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers

2. Parallel and Comparable Corpora: What is Happening? – Anthony Mcenery and Zhonghua Xiao

3. Universal Tendencies in Translation - Anna Mauranen

4. Norms and Nature in Translation Studies – Kirsten Malmkjaer

5. Being in Text and Text in Being: Notes on Representative Texts – Khurshid Ahmad

6. Translating Discourse Particles: A Case of Complex Translation – Karin Aijmer

7. The Translator and Polish-English Corpora – Tadeusz Piotrowski

8. The Existential There-construction in Czech Translation – Jiri Rambousek and Jana Chamonikolasovµ

9. Corpora in Translator Training and Practice: A Slovene Perspective – Spela Vintar

10. NP Modification Structures in Parallel Corpora – Tamas Varadi

11. A Study of the Mandative Subjunctive in French and its Translations in English: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis – N. Serpollet

12. Perfect Mismatches: Result in English and Portuguese – Diana Santos

13. Corpora for Translators in Spain: The CDJ-GITRAD Corpus and the GENTT Project – Anabel Borja

Über Autor(innen)

Rogers, Margaret
Margaret Rogers is Professor of Translation and Terminology Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. She initiated the Terminology Network in the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, and is a founder member of the Association of Terminology and Lexicography. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of Terminology, LSP and Professional Communication and Fachsprache as well as being a member of the Executive Board of the International Institute for Terminology Research.

Gunilla Anderman († 2007) was Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Surrey where she taught translation theory, translation of drama and translation of children’s literature, fields in which she has published and lectured widely in the UK as well as internationally.  She was also a professional translator with translations of Scandinavian plays staged in the UK, USA and South Africa. Her most recent publications include ‘Linguistics and Translation’ in A Companion to Translation Studies, edited by P.Kuhiwczak and K.Littau (2007) and In So Many Words: Translating for the  Screen (2007) co-edited with J. Cintas-Diaz (2007).

Margaret Rogers has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and is Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, where she teaches terminology, translation and text analysis on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Translation Studies. She initiated the Terminology Network in the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, and is a founder member of the Association for Terminology and Lexicography. Her publications focus on terminology in text, particularly in LSP texts in translation.