Section: 7. Corpora in contrastive linguistics and translation studies | Introduction to Text Corpora and Their Applications AMLV00061 | DL 1

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- Select activity Lecture presentation
  
  Lecture presentation File
- Select activity Reading assignment: lesson 7
  
  Reading assignment: lesson 7 File
  
  Chesterman, A. (2004). Hypotheses about Translation Universals. In Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001, pp. 1-13.
- Select activity Reading assignment: discussion •What is the diffe...
  
  Reading assignment: discussion
  
  •What is the difference between descriptive and prescriptive claims or hypotheses?
  
  •What two main types of translation can we historically observe?
  
  •What is the difference between s-universals and t-universals?
  
  •How can they be tested?
  
  •Should „bad“ translations be included in a parallel corpus?
  
  •Can you think of any examples of features of translation in your native language?