The Pervasiveness of Corpora in Translation Studies

In this paper we trace the development of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CBTS) from its origin to the present day by surveying landmark publications and international events. We then make some recommendations for the future. We contend that, if we are to make further advances in this area of scientifi enquiry, we should endeavour to harmonize the concerns of professional translators, translator trainees, translator trainers, and translation scholars. The first author provides an overview of corpus use in Translation Studies from the early 1990s to the first decade of the new millennium. The second author assesses the stat of the art of corpus studies of translation over the last ten years. In the concluding section, we jointly summarize the main points we covered throughout the paper and then look to the future.