Intermodal Corpora and the Translation Classroom: What can Translation Trainers and Trainees Learn from Interpreting?

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2016-0011
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multiple translation corpora intermodal corpora collocations corpus-based teaching materials

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Adriano Ferraresi
University of Bologna, Italy

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This contribution focuses on didactic applications of intermodal corpora, i.e. corpora featuring interpreted and translated language. It relies on EPTIC, a multipletranslation and intermodal parallel corpus containing EU Parliament plenary speeches in Italian and English. The peculiar nature of EPTIC allows the investigation of a set of translational alternatives which are distinguished by modality- and task-based constraints (written vs. oral, translated vs. interpreted). To exemplify the potential of such corpus evidence, teaching activities focusing on collocations are proposed that encourage students to reflect on the decision-making processes involved in the slower-paced, reflective task of translation, vs. the faster, more automatic one of interpreting. A method is also described that can facilitate the selection of relevant didactic examples.

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Ferraresi, A. “Intermodal Corpora and the Translation Classroom: What Can Translation Trainers and Trainees Learn from Interpreting?”. Linguaculture, vol. 7, no. 2, Dec. 2016, pp. 27-51, doi:10.1515/lincu-2016-0011.
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Adriano Ferraresi, University of Bologna, Italy

Adriano Ferraresi is a senior assistant professor at the Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy), where he teaches courses in English into Italian translation, and translation technology. His research interests are in the areas of phraseology, especially from a corpus-based and cognitive perspective, and the applications of corpora to translation teaching. He is the author of the volume Collocations in Institutional Academic English: Corpus and Experimental Perspectives (Roma: Aracne Editrice) and (co-)author of several journal articles, including “From EPIC to EPTIC–Exploring simplification in interpreting and translation from an intermodal perspective” (Target, Benjamins), “Practice, Description and Theory Come Together: Normalization or Interference in Italian Technical Translation?” (Meta, Érudit) and “Google and beyond: web-as-corpus methodologies for translators” (Revista Tradumàtica, UAB).

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