This book introduces the latest advances in Corpus-Based Translation Studies, tracing the advances from the advent of language corpora in translation studies, to the new textual dimensions and shift towards a probability-variation model.

Meng Ji is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.

Lidun Hareide is Researcher at Møreforsking Volda, Norway.

Defeng Li is Professor of Translational Studies at the University of Macau, China.

Michael Oakes is Reader in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

1. Early Empirical Studies of Translation - Prior to the Advent of Language Corpora 2. Language Corpora and Theoretical Advances of Corpus-Based Translation Studies 3. Corpus Exploration of New Textual Dimensions in Translations 4. Shift towards a Probability-Variation Model for Theoretical Translation Studies 5. Conclusion