Translation-based corpus studies : contrasting English and Portuguese tense and aspect systems / Diana Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Diana.

Series:

Language and Computers 50.

Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Translating into Portuguese.

Portuguese language--Translating into English.

English language--Tense.

Portuguese language--Tense.

English language--Aspect.

Portuguese language--Aspect.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.

Summary:

This book presents a model for describing translation performance as a basis for contrastive linguistics, in the realm of tense and aspect. It is based on extensive corpus studies investigating the differences between English and Portuguese using authentic translations in the two directions. In method and substance, the book features several original claims, trying to achieve a balance between theoretical issues and the presentation of concrete translation data. In addition, it deals with computational applications of parallel corpora. Translation-based corpus studies should thus be appropriate for translator education, and for introducing contrastive semantics and the methodology of corpus linguistics to students of linguistics and computer science. Researchers in tense and aspect, translation, and corpus linguistics are, nevertheless, the book’s primary audience.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Parallel corpora and contrastive studies

Tense, aspect, and semantics

The translation network

Corpus studies

Language engineering, evaluation and applications

References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Revision of the author's thesis, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.

ISBN:

9789004333727

900433372X

OCLC:

56014450

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004333727 DOI