Developing documentation skills to build do-it-yourself corpora in the specialised translation course

Sánchez-Gijón, Pilar

doi:10.1075/btl.82.08san

In:Corpus Use and Translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translate
Edited by Allison Beeby, Patricia Rodríguez-Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón
[Benjamins Translation Library 82] 2009
► pp. 109–127

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Developing documentation skills to build do-it-yourself corpora in the specialised translation course

Pilar Sánchez-Gijón | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Published online: 11 March 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.82.08san

This chapter presents the case for systematic use of do-it-yourself corpora in specialised translation courses, focusing in particular on the use of corpora as a documentation resource. An overview is given of the importance of documentation in professional translation, its place in different translation competence models and the advantages and disadvantages of how it is taught in different translator training centres. Having reached the conclusion that documentation skills for translation are best acquired in a translation course as a tool to solve specific translation problems, the author suggests a protocol to help students create their own DIY corpus in specialised translation courses. The proposal is illustrated by examples of problems related to the translation of an instruction manual for an air conditioning system.

Keywords: documentation skills, Do-it-yourself corpora, specialised translation, specialised translation training, translation training

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