Corpus-based Approaches to Translation Studies

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of corpus-based translation studies that appeared in the beginning of the 1990s. Corpus linguistics has provided a new weapon for translation studies, broadened the research scope and introduced a brand-new thought pattern for translation scholars. This paper introduces the design and application of Translational English Corpus. Besides, it makes an objective assessment to corpus-based translation studies and analyses the potential of Translational English Corpus.