Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-1046-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Approaches to Translation Studies

Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high degree of complementarity between the two fields in terms of research methodology, interests and objectives. Offering theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives, the articles show how translation and contrastive approaches to grammar, lexis and discourse can be harmoniously combined through the use of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora and how contrastive information needs to inform translation research and vice versa. The notion of contrastive linguistics adopted here is broad; thus, alongside comparisons of Malay/English idioms and the French imparfait and its English equivalents, there are articles comparing different varieties of French, and sign language with spoken language. This collection should be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. In addition, the section on corpus-based teaching applications will be of great value to teachers of translation and contrastive linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Granger, Sylviane

Lerot, Jacques

Petch-Tyson, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Sylviane GRANGER, Jacques LEROT & Stephanie PETCH-TYSON: Preface
I. Theoretical Approaches
Sylviane GRANGER: The corpus approach: a common way forward for Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies?
Stig JOHANSSON: Contrastive linguistics and corpora
Sara LAVIOSA: Corpora and Translation Studies
II. Corpus-based Case Studies
Kristin DAVIDSE & Liesbet HEYVAERT: On the middle construction in English and Dutch
André HANTSON: English gerund clauses and Norwegian det + infinitive / at clause constructions
Mieke van HERREWEGHE & Myriam VERMEERBERGEN: Flemish Sign Language and Dutch: Syntactic differences due to a different modality as exemplified in reference tracking
Hélène CHUQUET: Loss and gain in English translations of the French imparfait
Jonathan CHARTERIS-BLACK: A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms
Tiina PUURTINEN: Nonfinite constructions in Finnish children’s literature: Features of translationese contradicting translation universals?
III. Cross-linguistics Tools and Applications
Philip KING: Parallel concordancing and its applications
Lynne BOWKER: Corpus-based applications for translator training: Exploring the possibilities
Natalie KÜBLER & Pierre-Yves FOUCOU: Teaching English verbs with bilingual corpora: Examples in the field of computer science
Elizabeth DAWES: Towards a new dictionary of idioms