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Title: The role of electronic corpora in translation training
Vol. 7, 2019, pp. 48-58.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.004
Author: Silvana Neshkovska
About the author: Dr. Silvana Neshkovska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education – Bitola, St. Kliment Ohridski University - Bitola. She teaches a number of courses in English linguistics such as Syntax, Pragmatics, Contrastive Analysis and Phonetics and Phonology as well as Translation, at the Department of Macedonian and Other Foreign Languages. Her main research interests lie in the field of pragmatics, contrastive analysis, English language teaching and translation. She has published a number of research paper in various domestic and foreign scientific journals.
e-mail: silvana.neskovska@uklo.edu.mk
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4417-7783
Citation (APA style): Neshkovska, S. (2019). The role of electronic corpora in translation training. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 7, 48-58. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.004
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol7/SILC_2019_Vol%207_048-058_11.pdf
Abstract: Corpus linguistics has surely secured its position and status in the world of science nowadays. Its role in linguistic research, and consequently its implications for the linguistic theory and practice are practically indisputable today. Nevertheless, what started capturing researchers’ attention in the last decades is the role that corpus linguistics has in the domain of translation studies and training. In fact, corpus linguistics has extended its influence so much that it is safe to claim that providing proper training to trainee translators and doing translation in general is inconceivable and inadmissible without taking full advantage of the benefits of corpora.
The paper aims to take a closer look at the current research done on the role of corpus linguistics in the sphere of translation studies and translation training by examining closely some of the most recent and relevant studies which have dealt with this issue recently. More specifically, the aim of the paper is to offer an overview of the most salient findings and results obtained from these studies, and eventually to draw conclusions as to how future translators could apply these insights into their practical work in order to secure their competitiveness in the global labour market.
Key words: corpora, corpus linguistics, translation training
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