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Type of Publication: Edited collection
Author/Editor: Willy Vandeweghe, Sonia Vandepitte, Marc Van de Velde
Year of publication: 2007
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Place of Publication & Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publisher URL: http://www.benjamins.com
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Publication blurb: On January 12-14, 2006 an international congress took place in Ghent (Belgium) at the School of Translation Studies (Hogeschool Gent), under the auspices of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Its theme was the interface between Linguistics and Translation Studies, and the relevance of one discipline to the other. The congress acronym slt06 stood for ‘The Study of Language and Translation 2006’.

A selection of the papers presented at this congress has been brought together in volume 21 of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics (BJL 21). This volume, published by John Benjamins, is due to appear in May or June 2007. Many of the contributions to the volume are in some way or another tributary to the translation studies corpus approach with its focus on corpus methodology and universals research. In fact, various methodologies are suggested for the investigation of similarities, metacommunication, borrowings, collocations, and so on. Reference is made to both S-universals and T-universals. The relationship between hypotheses, types of findings and domains of study is explored and results are given of investigations into prosodic, linguistic and textual features of various types of translation corpora.

The volume presents results from descriptive linguistic investigations into translations, covering a wide variety of West-European languages: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish. Among the contributors to the volume are three of the keynote speakers at the congress, Mona Baker, Andrew Chesterman and Christiane Nord. Other contributions are from an international plethora of scholars: Kris Buyse, Jana Chamonikolasová and Jiří Rambousek, Ana Espunya, Patrick Goethals, Sandra Halverson, Sara Laviosa, Marjatta Lehtinen Josep Marco Borillo and Josep Guzman, and Sonia Vandepitte.