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This chapter gives a methodological overview of keyword analysis—a corpus-based method applied in translation studies for examining lexical features of comparable texts. It introduces the concept of keywords and characterizes different types of materials and research questions relevant for keyword analysis.

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    This fact is probably due to the development of translation studies as a clearly separate research field since the 1990s. The first generation of corpus scholars in translation studies referred a lot to linguistic corpus studies because of the lack of translational research in this field. The newer generation continues to refer to classics in linguistics, such as Sinclair and Biber, but seems to ignore a lot of relevant sources in present-day linguistic corpus research literature. In linguistic corpus studies for its part, it is typical that translational corpus research is totally missing in the list of reference literature.

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    The research material is non-lemmatized. That is why the word word is used here in the sense ‘word form’. Russian nouns and adjectives take different case and gender forms (both singular and plural), the fact that is reflected in the composition of each keyword list. To help those readers, who do not know Russian, the keywords are provided with English translations. They are given for each lemma, not for different word forms.

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  1. Dipartimento LELIA, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Sara Laviosa

  2. Translation Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Adriana Pagano

  3. Translation Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Hannu Kemppanen

  4. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Meng Ji

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Laviosa, S., Pagano, A., Kemppanen, H., Ji, M. (2017). Keywords—A Tool for Translation Analysis. In: Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1969-2_3

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