Some limits of current corpus-based methodologies for the investigation of translation universals: When is a universal not a universal?

Bernardini, Silvia; Zanettin, Federico

doi:10.1075/btl.48.05ber

In:Translation Universals: Do they exist?
Edited by Anna Mauranen and Pekka Kujamäki
[Benjamins Translation Library 48] 2004
► pp. 51–62

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When is a universal not a universal?

Some limits of current corpus-based methodologies for the investigation of translation universals

Silvia Bernardini

Federico Zanettin

Published online: 29 January 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.48.05ber

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