<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the past few decades, it has extensively been written about corpus linguistics, which has owned its upswing mainly to the use of electronic corpora since the 1960s (Brown Corpus). Meanwhile, an increasing number of fields within general and applied linguistics (e.g. computational linguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, diachronic and synchronic linguistics, language teaching and learning research, lexicology and lexicography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies) have been using corpus linguistic methods. In linguistic research, the empirical and descriptive character of corpus-based linguistic analysis has also been given an emphasis.</p><p>Thanks to the digital revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries the creation and provision of digital linguistic corpora is becoming accessible for smaller nations and language communities as well as for scientists. Nowadays, linguistic corpora cannot only be regarded as a tool to support language research and Translation Studies, but they also contribute to the enrichment of cultural diversity. The article focuses on international examples as well as on the most significant Hungarian corpora. The paper also discusses the criteria of corpus creation and several cultural aspects of corpus linguistics.</p></abstract>

In the past few decades, it has extensively been written about corpus linguistics, which has owned its upswing mainly to the use of electronic corpora since the 1960s (Brown Corpus). Meanwhile, an increasing number of fields within general and applied linguistics (e.g. computational linguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, diachronic and synchronic linguistics, language teaching and learning research, lexicology and lexicography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies) have been using corpus linguistic methods. In linguistic research, the empirical and descriptive character of corpus-based linguistic analysis has also been given an emphasis.Thanks to the digital revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries the creation and provision of digital linguistic corpora is becoming accessible for smaller nations and language communities as well as for scientists. Nowadays, linguistic corpora cannot only be regarded as a tool to support language research and Translation Studies, but they also contribute to the enrichment of cultural diversity. The article focuses on international examples as well as on the most significant Hungarian corpora. The paper also discusses the criteria of corpus creation and several cultural aspects of corpus linguistics.

Zu theoretischen und praktischen Aspekten des Fachübersetzens

Technische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Universität Budapest (BME)

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Sprachkorpora im Dienste der kulturellen Vielfalt

In the past few decades, it has extensively been written about corpus linguistics, which has owned its upswing mainly to the use of electronic corpora since...

Zu theoretischen und praktischen Aspekten des Fachübersetzens

Published Online: Jan 31, 2018

Page range: 135 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0034

Keywords
corpus-based language analysis, cultural diversity, technical translation, text corpora, translation research

© 2017 Olívia Seidl-Péch, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Zu theoretischen und praktischen Aspekten des Fachübersetzens

Published Online: Jan 31, 2018

Page range: 135 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0034

Keywordscorpus-based language analysis, cultural diversity, technical translation, text corpora, translation research

© 2017 Olívia Seidl-Péch, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
corpus-based language analysis, cultural diversity, technical translation, text corpora, translation research