The corpus-based approach has developed into a well established paradigm in
translation studies and has been recognised as a principal reason for the
revival of contrastive linguistics since the 1990s, while corpus-based
contrastive and translation studies have in turn significantly expanded the
scope of corpus linguistics. This book features a selection of twenty-three
papers from the 2008 meeting of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation
Studies (UCCTS), an international conference series launched to provide an
international forum for the exploration of theoretical and practical issues
pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation
studies. The papers in this collection represent the latest developments in
corpus-based