1st Edition
Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies A guide for research
Chapter 1 Parallel Text Corpora: a General Overview
Chapter 2 Designing and Compiling a Parallel Corpus
Chapter 3 Using Parallel Corpora: Basic Search Procedures
Chapter 4 Processing Search Results
Chapter 5 Using Parallel Corpora: More Advanced Search Procedures
Chapter 6 Applications of Parallel Corpora
Chapter 7 A Survey of Available Parallel Corpora
Biography
Mikhail Mikhailov is Professor of Translation Studies (Russian and Finnish) at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Robert Cooper is a former Lecturer in English at the University of Tampere, Finland.
"Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies is an invaluable guide to methods and procedures for dealing with multilingual corpora as well as a source of ideas for how the corpora can be used for different types of linguistic research."
Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden"This is an excellent book which fills a genuine gap very well. The authors are highly experienced, and the book communicates their expertise clearly and thoroughly."
Raphael Salkie, University of Brighton, UK
