Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Special attention is given to parallel corpora, which are collections of texts in two or more languages, and the potential benefits for multilingual corpus linguistics research are highlighted for the reader.

Written by two experienced researchers and practitioners, this book:

• covers the theory of corpus research
• describes the different types of parallel corpora
• explains how to compile a corpus and the use of basic and advanced search procedures.

Illustrated with case studies from a range of languages and from parallel corpora, Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers working within the area of translation and contrastive studies.