Incorporating Corpora

Sixteen European academics and researchers contribute 13 chapters concerned with corpora and translation. Several chapters discussing corpus linguistics and its emerging role in translation studies explore developmental links between aspects of linguistics in the Firthian tradition and the subsequent use of corpora to study translation, the type of corpus data available and not available to researchers and translators, universal tendencies in translation, the sociocultural nature of norms versus the cognitive nature of universals, and the issue of representativeness. Language-specific chapters examine translation of discourse particles in English and Swedish, the challenges of highly inflectional morphology in Polish-English corpora, the existential there-construction in Czech translation, the use of parallel corpora in Slovene-English translation, NP modification in English and Hungarian, the mandative subjunctive in French and its translations in English, "result" in English and Portuguese, and corpora for translators in Spain. No subject index. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gunilla Anderman (? 2007) was Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Surrey where she taught translation theory, translation of drama and translation of children’s literature, fields in which she has published and lectured widely in the UK as well as internationally. She was also a professional translator with translations of Scandinavian plays staged in the UK, USA and South Africa. Her most recent publications include ‘Linguistics and Translation’ in A Companion to Translation Studies, edited by P.Kuhiwczak and K.Littau (2007) and In So Many Words: Translating for the Screen (2007) co-edited with J. Cintas-Diaz (2007).

Margaret Rogers has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and is Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, where she teaches terminology, translation and text analysis on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Translation Studies. She initiated the Terminology Network in the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, and is a founder member of the Association for Terminology and Lexicography. Her publications focus on terminology in text, particularly in LSP texts in translation.