Table of Contents

1. Early Empirical Studies of Translation – Prior to the Advent of Language Corpora 2. Language Corpora and Theoretical Advances of Corpus-Based Translation Studies 3. Corpus Exploration of New Textual Dimensions in Translations 4. Shift towards a Probability-Variation Model for Theoretical Translation Studies 5. Conclusion

About the Author

Meng Ji is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.

Lidun Hareide is Researcher at Møreforsking Volda, Norway.

Defeng Li is Professor of Translational Studies at the University of Macau, China.

Michael Oakes is Reader in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Reviews

An invaluable contribution to the study of the product and process of translation through corpora and a very useful resource for descriptive and applied research alike. -- Sara Laviosa