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标题：Acquiring or enhancing a translation specialism: the monolingual corpus-guided approach
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作者：Ailish Maher ; Stephen Waller ; Mary Ellen Kerans 等
期刊名称：Journal of Specialized Translation
印刷版ISSN：1740-357X
出版年度：2008
期号：10
页码：1-10
出版社：Jostrans
摘要：Translators and editors who work in a specialised field—a particular branch of medicine, technology or finance, for instance—may find it difficult to acquire (or enhance) their domain-specific knowledge other than by learning as they go or going back to college. Both strategies can be slow and costly. Our paper describes a faster, more economical way to climb the specialist learning ladder, namely a corpus-guided approach to translating, revising and editing. We describe two tools for analysing a corpus of model texts: on the one hand, a user-friendly concordancer with an intuitive interface; on the other, an equally easy-to-use desktop-based indexer. Finally, we propose an approach to the issue of corpus size (sampling adequacy) that provides a practical solution for the working translator: we recommend creating a carefully chosen, cleaned text collection that functions as a reliable substrate corpus for language pattern guidance and adding to it an ad-hoc ‘quick and dirty’ corpus to further narrow the topic focus as needed.
关键词：Corpus; concordancer; translation; editing; corpus-guided translation.