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Author:   Jeremy Munday ,  Kim Wallmach ,  Alet Kruger
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.628kg
ISBN:  

9781441115812

ISBN 10:   1441115811
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   18 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Alet Kruger, Kim Wallmach and Jeremy Munday; Part I: Core Concepts and Tools; 1. Corpus-Based Translation Studies: Where does it come from? Where is it going?, Sara Laviosa; 2. Corpus-based Interpretation Studies: Reflections and prospects, Robin Setton; 3.Translation Units and Corpora, Dorothy Kenny; 4. Hardwiring Corpus-Based Translation Studies: Corpus encoding, Federico Zanettin; 5. Web-Based Corpus Software, Saturnino Luz; Part II: Methods for the Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Patterns in Large Corpora; 6. Lexical Priming and Translation, Michael Hoey; 7. Looming Large: A cross-linguistic analysis of semantic prosodies in comparable reference corpora, Jeremy Munday; 8. Using Translation and Parallel Text Corpora to Investigate the Influence of Global English on Textual Norms in Other Languages, Juliane House; Part III: Studies in Specific Sub-Fields; 9. Examining the Impact of Corpora on Terminographic Practice in the Context of Translation, Lynne Bowker; 10. Style of Translation: The use of source language words in translations by Margaret Jull Costa and Peter Bush, Gabriela Saldanha; 11. A Link Between Simplification and Explicitation in English-Xhosa Parallel Texts, Koliswa Moropa; 12. Disfluencies in Simultaneous Interpreting: A corpus-based analysis, Claudio Bendazzoli, Annalisa Sandrelli and Mariachiara Russo; Bibliography; Index.

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This volume achieves a rare balance of theory and practice, centre and periphery, past and future, bringing together some of the best-known names in corpus-based translation studies and making a perfect starting point for new-comers to the field, as well as essential reading for those already part of it.--Silvia Bernardini, Associate Professor, Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy

""This volume achieves a rare balance of theory and practice, centre and periphery, past and future, bringing together some of the best-known names in corpus-based translation studies and making a perfect starting point for new-comers to the field, as well as essential reading for those already part of it."" --Silvia Bernardini, Associate Professor, Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy

Author Information

Jeremy Munday, Senior Lecturer at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds, UK. Kim Wallmach is a Teacher of Translation and Interpreting, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Co-ordinator at Multilingua Translation and Interpretation Services, South Africa. Alet Kruger, formerly a Professor at University of South Frica, South Africa, currently a Co-ordinator at Multilingua Translation and Interpretation Services, South Africa.

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