CORPORA AND CORPUS TECHNOLOGY FOR TRANSLATION PURPOSES IN PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES

Abstract The “use” of corpora and concordancers in translation teaching has grown increasingly attractive since the mid1990s’ with an abundant literature advocating their use and promoting their benefits in the translation classroom. In translator training, efforts are being made to incorporate the use of corpora and concordancers in masters’ programmes and to offer specific modules on corpora for translation as the use of translation memory (TM) systems within Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) courses still dominates. In the translation profession, while TM systems are part of the ever...