Incorporating Corpora

<p>The emergence of studies of translation based on electronic corpora has been one of the most interesting and fruitful developments in Translation Studies in recent years. But the origins of such studies can be traced back through many decades as this volume sets out to establish. Covering a number of European languages including Czech Hungarian Polish and Slovenian as well as French Spanish Portuguese and Swedish the book presents many new studies of translation patterns using parallel corpora focusing on particular linguistic features. The studies reveal systemic differences which are in turn of relevance to the linguistic description of the languages concerned as well as to translator training. Also included are broader-ranging contributions on the concept of translation universals including a critical perspective on this popular topic. [127 words]</p>