Robert Cooper
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Mikhail (University of Tampere, Finland) Mikhailov
Boeken van Robert Cooper
Robert Cooper
The Ambassadors
History does not run in straight lines. It is made by men and women and by accident. The path of events and ideas does not stretch smoothly from Thucydides, through Machiavelli and thence to perpetual peace.
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Mikhail (University of Tampere, Finland) Mikhailov
Mikhail Mikhailov
Robert (formerly University of Tampere, Finland) Cooper
Robert Cooper
Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies
Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving special attention to parallel corpora, which are collections of texts in two or more languages, and demonstrating the potential benefits for multilingual corpus linguistics research to both translators and researchers, this book:explores the different types of parallel corpora available, and shows how to use basic and advanced search procedures to analyse them;explains how to compile a parallel corpus, and discusses their uses for translation purposes and to research linguistic phenomena across languages;demonstrates the use of corpus extracts across a wide range of texts, including dictionaries, novels by authors including Jane Austen and Mikhail Bulgakov, and newspapers such as The Sunday Times;is illustrated with case studies from a range of languages including Finnish, Russian, English and French.
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