Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer (University of Louvain, Belgium) Part I: Corpus-Based Translation Studies: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives 1. Corpus-Based Translation and Interpreting Studies: A Forward-Looking Review, Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer (University of Louvain, Belgium) 2. Expanding the Reach of Corpus-Based Translation Studies: The Opportunities that Lie Ahead, Federico Gaspari (University for Foreigners "Dante Alighieri" of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Part II: Recent Methodological and Theoretical Developments in CBTS 3. Translation as Constrained Communication: Principles, Concepts and Methods, Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University, North-West University) 4. On the Use of Multiple Methods in Empirical Translation Studies: A Combined Corpus and Experimental Analysis of Subject Identifiability in English and German: Stella Neumann, Jonas Freiwald and Arndt Heilmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Part III: Corpus-Based Empirical Studies 5. Syntactic Properties of Constrained English: A Corpus-Driven Approach, Ilmari Ivaska (University of Turku, Finland), Adriano Ferraresi and Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy) 6. Grammatical Metaphor in Translation: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Nominal of-Constructions, Arndt Heilmann, Tatiana Serbina, Jonas Freiwald and Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 7. Detecting Normalisation and Shining-Through in Novice and Professional Translations, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) Part IV: Corpus Use in Translator Training 8. Translation Quality in Student Specialised Translation : The Impact of Corpus Use, Heidi Verplaetse (KU Leuven, Belgium) 9. Using Comparable Corpora for Translating and Post-Editing Complex Noun Phrases in Specialised Texts: Insights from English-to-French Specialised Translation, Natalie Kübler, Alexandra Mestivier and Mojca Pecman (Université de Paris, France) Index

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Written by leading experts, this books presents the latest theoretical, methodological and applied developments in the fast-growing field of corpus-based translation studies.

About the Author

Sylviane Granger is Emerita Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Marie-Aude Lefer is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Reviews

Readers interested in understanding the developmental trajectory and current state of corpus-based translation studies are advised to start with this volume. In addition to insightful surveys, this collection provides top-tier theoretical and methodological work, as well as innovative studies of corpus use in translator training. Empirical studies complement theory and method development, resulting in a rich and thought-provoking collection.
*Sandra L. Halverson, Professor of Translation and LSP at the University of Agder, Norway*