The challenge of teaching the translation of collocations: Extraction and comparison of collocations across languages applied to the training of translators

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https://doi.org/10.24310/REDIT.2020.v1i14.12306

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training of translators, contrastive phraselogy, collocations, phraseology of marketing

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Since the translation of phraseological units has always been a challenge, contrastive phraseology has come to occupy a central role in the training of translators. For anyone interested in the translation of collocations and/or the comparison of collocations across languages there is an essential issue that has to be dealt with beforehand: the successful extraction of collocations from corpora. Therefore the aim of this article is twofold. Firstly, to compare collocation extraction methods from corpora, and secondly, to compare the use of collocations in the training of translation using the LSP of marketing for English, German and Spanish. To achieve these two objectives first of all the collocations are defined and clearly distinguished from other phrases. It will be shown how to extract collocations from large corpora focusing on hybrid methods that combine linguistic and statistical information. After describing two of these methods, they will be applied to the corpora. The findings will be analysed and compared in order to show the challenges of translating collocations to future translators.

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2021-12-22

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Ruiz Yepes, G. (2021). The challenge of teaching the translation of collocations: Extraction and comparison of collocations across languages applied to the training of translators. Redit - Revista Electrónica De Didáctica De La Traducción Y La Interpretación, (14), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.24310/REDIT.2020.v1i14.12306

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