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Speaker: Dr. Dorothy Kenny, DCU
venue: Davis Lecture Theatre (Arts Building Room 2043)
Trinity College, University of Dublin
time: 4:00-6:00, Friday, February 18, 2005.
title:
Corpora in Translation Studies
abstract:
Electronic corpora have been in use in both the descriptive and
applied branches of translation studies since the mid 1990s. In the
descriptive branch, corpora have been used to support investigations
into the ways translators typically write, in an attempt, for example,
to find out whether translators are more explicit or more conservative
than other writers. In the applied branch, corpora have been used as
an aid in translation teaching and evaluation. Corpora have also been
used in translation-related areas of Natural Language Processing, for
example in the development of aligners, example-based machine
translation systems, and term and lexicon extraction tools.
In this paper, I focus on the use of corpora in descriptive translation
studies, highlighting how monolingual comparable corpora (ie corpora of
texts translated into a language A alongside texts originally written in
that same language) and bilingual parallel corpora (texts in a source language
A alongside their translations into a target language B) have contributed
to our understanding of translation and translator behaviour. I also ask
whether the use of corpora has helped researchers to move towards a better
understanding of key concepts such as that of ?translation units?. Examples
will be taken from the German-English Parallel Corpus of Literary Texts,
and the Translational English Corpus, amongst others.
Dr. Dorothy Kenny
Senior Lecturer
School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Fax: ++353 1 700 5527
Centre for Translation and Textual Studies http://www.ctts.dcu.ie/
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