On identification of bilingual lexical bundles for translation purposes
Łukasz Grabowski · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 2018
Abstract Grounded in phraseology and corpus linguistics, this paper aims to explore the use of bilingual lexical bundles to improve the degree of naturalness and textual fit of translated texts. More specifically, this study attempts to identify lexical bundles, that is, recurrent sequences of 3–7 words with similar discursive functions in a purpose-designed comparable corpus of English and Polish patient information leaflets, with 100 text samples in each language. Because of cross-linguistic differences, we additionally apply a number of formal criteria in order to filter out the bundles in each subcorpus. The results show that bilingual lexical bundles with overlapping discourse functions in texts and extracted from comparable corpora hold unexplored potential for machine translation, computer-assisted translation and bilingual lexicography.