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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Corpus Linguistics for Translators
Module Code	LC524
School	SALIS
Online Module Resources
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

This module introduces students to corpus-based research into language and translation, explores the empirical methods used by corpus linguists, and gives students hands-on experience of corpus building and processing and an opportunity to design and implement their own corpus-based research.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the approach taken to the analysis of linguistic data adopted by selected corpus linguists
2. Outline the relevance of corpus research to selected questions in translation studies
3. Build their own corpus
4. Manipulate corpus data using apppropriate electronic tools
5. Analyse corpus data using appropriate conceptual categories
6. Design, implement and present a corpus-based research project

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Lecture	12	No Description
Lecture	12	No Description
Laboratory	12	Practical exercises conducted in computer lab
Laboratory	12	Practical exercises conducted in computer lab
Directed learning	25	Set reading
Directed learning	25	Set reading
Independent learning	25	Student-selected reading in preparation for project
Independent learning	25	Student-selected reading in preparation for project
Assignment	51	Design, execution and write-up of corpus-based project
Assignment	51	Design, execution and write-up of corpus-based project
Total Workload: 250

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

history of corpus linguistics.
pre-computer corpora and early electronic corpora: Brown, LOB, Cobuild, BNC.

corpus linguistics as methodology.
corpus-driven and corpus-based research; hypothesis formation and testing; quantitative and qualitative approaches.

basic corpus processing.
wordlists, keywords, concordancing.

using corpus tools.
WordSmith; Xaira; Sketch Engine; etc..

collocation and collocation analysis.
Firthian and neo-Firthian approaches to collocation, colligation and related lexico-grammatical phenomena (including semantic and discourse prosody); use of measures such as Mutual Information, log likelihood, etc..

corpora and discourse analysis.
corpus approaches to the analysis of transitivity, metaphor, and stereotyping.

corpus-based translation studies.
parallel and comparable corpus studies of 'general features of translation', including explicitation, normalization, simplification, etc; investigation of translator styles and narrative structure.

corpus creation.
corpus design criteria; using existing resources (e.g. through Sketch Engine).

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assignment	Design and implementation of an explicitly motivated corpus-based research project, reported on in a 3,000 word written submission	100%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Barnbrook, Geoff: 1996, Language and Computers, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh,
Bowker, Lynne: 2002, Computer-Aided Translation Technology: A Practical Introduction, chapter on corpora, Ottawa University Press, Ottawa,
Bowker, Lynne and Jennifer Pearson: 2002, Working with Specialized Language: A practical guide to using corpora, Routledge, London/New York,
Deignan, Alice: 2005, Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics, 1st, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 978 1 58811 647 5
Kenny, Dorothy: 2001, Lexis and Creativity in Translation: A Corpus-based Study, 1st, Saint Jerome Publishing, Manchester, 9781900650380 / 1-900650-38-X
Olohan, Maeve: 2004, Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies, Routledge, London/New York,
Sinclair, John: 1991, Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Stubbs, Michael: 1996, Text and Corpus Analysis, Blackwell, Oxford,
Stubbs, Michael: 2001, Words and Phrases, Blackwell, Oxford,