Exploring theoretical functions of corpus data in teaching translation

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Abstract:As language referential data banks, corpora are instrumental in the exploration of translation solutions in bilingual parallel texts or conventional usages of source or target language in monolingual general or specialized texts. These roles are firmly rooted in translation processes, from analysis and interpretation of source text to searching for an acceptable equivalent and integrating it into the production of the target text. Provided the creative and not the conservative way be taken, validation or adaptation of target text in accordance with conventional usages in the target language also benefits from corpora. Translation teaching is not exploiting this way of translating that is common practice in the professional translation markets around the world. Instead of showing what corpus tools can do to translation teaching, we start our analysis with a common issue within translation teaching and show how corpus data can help to resolve it in learning activities in translation courses. We suggest a corpus-driven model for the interpretation of 'business' as a term and as an item in complex terms based on source text pattern analysis. This methodology will make it possible for teachers to explain and justify interpretation rules that have been defined theoretically from corpus data. It will also help teachers to conceive and non-subjectively assess practical activities designed for learners of translation. Corpus data selected for the examples of rule-based interpretations provided in this paper have * Éric Poirier: PhD and MA in translation from Université de Montréal (UdeM), BA specialized in linguistics from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Associate professor at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in the Département des langues modernes et de traduction, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. E-Mail: Eric.Poirier@uqtr.ca Éric Poirier been compiled in a corpus-driven study (Poirier 2015) on the translation of the noun 'business' in the field of specialized translation in business, economics, and finance from English to French. The corpus methodology and rule-based interpretation of senses can be generalized and applied in the definition of interpretation rules for other language pairs and other specialized simple and complex terms. These works will encourage the matching of translation study theories and corpus translation studies with professional practices. It will also encourage the matching of translation studies and corpus translation studies with source and target language usages and with textual correlations between source language real usages and target language translation real practices. Keywords: Specialized translation. Teaching; corpus. Sense discrimination. 'Business' interpretation. EXPLORACIÓN DE LAS FUNCIONES TEÓRICAS DE CORPUS EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA TRADUCCIÓNResumen: En su calidad de bancos de datos de referencia lingüísticos, los corpus son fundamentales a la hora de buscar soluciones de traducción dentro de textos paralelos bilingües o de buscar usos convencionales en lengua ...

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