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Introducing Corpus-based Translation Studies

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This chapter offers a brief definition of corpus-based translation studies and traces its early development prompted by progress in descriptive translation studies and corpus linguistics followed by an overview of the major research areas of corpus-based translation studies.

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Hu, K. (2016). Introduction. In: Introducing Corpus-based Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48218-6_1

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