| List of figures | |
| List of abbreviations and acronyms | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Aim of this book | |
| Outline | |
| Introducing translation studies research | |
| Introduction | |
| Where is the translator? | |
| Theoretical approaches, methodological issues and conflicting viewpoints | |
| Chesterman's models of translation for translation research | |
| The comparative model, polysystems and corpora | |
| Corpus linguistics and translation | |
| Introduction | |
| Translation in corpus linguistics | |
| Studying language use | |
| Theoretical frameworks for corpus methods in translation studies | |
| Descriptive study of translation | |
| Assumed and prototypical translations, norms and universals | |
| Contextualization of translation | |
| Perspectives on corpora in translation studies | |
| Parallel corpora | |
| Introduction | |
| Defining a parallel corpus | |
| Text availability and directionality | |
| Alignment | |
| Parallel corpora in contrastive linguistic analysis | |
| Parallel corpora and the study of translation | |
| Advantages of using parallel corpora | |
| Comparable corpora | |
| Introduction | |
| Defining a comparable corpus | |
| Comparable corpora in translation studies | |
| Aims of comparable corpus research in translation studies | |
| Sources of controversy? | |
| Studying the translation process by analyzing the product | |
| Studying translation without studying the source texts | |
| Studying influences and constraints on the translation process | |
| Comparability of corpora | |
| Translation evaluation | |
| Combining comparable corpus and parallel corpus analyses | |
| Corpus design | |
| Introduction | |
| General corpus design issues | |
| Corpus design issues in translation studies | |
| Practical aspects of corpus compilation | |
| Funding a corpus compilation project | |
| Making texts machine readable | |
| Obtaining copyright permissions | |
| Tagging and annotating a corpus | |
| Aligning a parallel corpus | |
| Collecting and encoding other data | |
| Design and compilation criteria of specific corpora | |
| English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) | |
| English-Italian Translational Corpus (CEXI) | |
| German-English Parallel Corpus of Literary Texts (GEPCOLT) | |
| Corpus of children's fantasy literature | |
| The Translational English Corpus (TEC) | |
| Corpus of Translated Finnish (CTF) | |
| Corpus tools and analysis | |
| Introduction | |
| Data extraction and analysis | |
| Concordancing tools | |
| Keyword in context (KWIC) | |
| Sorting of concordances | |
| Using tags in searches | |
| Working with large quantities of data | |
| Using the co-text | |
| Analyzing concordances | |
| Bilingual concordancing | |
| Frequency lists and other quantitative measures | |
| Frequency list | |
| Type token ratio, sentence and word lengths | |
| Lexical density | |
| Keywords | |
| Collocation and semantic prosody | |
| Quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, and statistics | |
| Features of translation | |
| Introduction | |
| What influences the translator? | |
| Baker's features of translation | |
| Are translation features universal? | |
| Explicitation | |
| Normalization or conservatism | |
| Simplification | |
| Levelling out | |
| Co-occurrence of features | |
| Case study: Quantitative pilot study of optional syntactic elements in translation | |
| Data | |
| Omission of relative pronoun wh-/that | |
| Omission of complementiser to | |
| Omission in (while) *ing and (after) having + participle | |
| Omission of in order | |
| Case study conclusion | |
| Case study: Investigation of lexical productivity through analysis of -ish forms | |
| Background to -ish | |
| Data | |
| Preliminary findings | |
| Colour -ish forms | |
| Numerals and adjectival bases | |
| Nominal bases - lexicalised | |
| Nominal bases - creative | |
| Creative forms in TECFIC | |
| Creative forms in BNCFIC | |
| Case study conclusion | |
| Case study: Investigation of lexical variation through analysi | |
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