Corpora and Translation Studies: Implications and Applications

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani ¹ , Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi ²

1 - Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
2 - English Department, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2020-06-18 Accepted : 2021-01-15 Published : 2021-07-01

Keywords: Translation Studies, Corpus, Corpus-based Translation Studies,

Abstract :

Concurrent with the advent of Mona Baker’s seminal and trendsetter paper (1995) on the constructive role of corpora in translation research, we have witnessed an exponential revolution in this fast-growing strand of research (Fang, 2020; Vasheghani Farahani and Kazemian, 2021; Zanettin, 2012). What Baker envisaged in Corpus-based Translation Studies borrowed its roots from Descriptive Translation Studies (to study translation in accordance with target text boundaries) and was concomitant with the time when corpora were in their incipient stages of fruition in Applied Linguistics (Laviosa, 2013). As a matter of principle, the critical nexus between translation and corpora was underpinned based on the assumption that “hypotheses are tested by examining language in use rather than concocted examples” (Laviosa, 2013, p. 228).

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