Enhancing College English Translation Instruction with Parallel Corpus Analysis

Abstract

: Corpus linguistics hinges on the pivotal concept of "corpus," encompassing vast electronic text collections essential for linguistic research. These corpora encompass written and spoken language instances, capturing specific linguistic variations and evolving through rigorous material selection, norm establishment, and grammatical annotation processes. When appropriately scaled, corpora serve as veritable mirrors of language use within defined contexts, enabling comprehensive language observation and analysis. This linguistic discipline, a cornerstone of computational linguistics, leverages diverse corpora as indispensable primary resources for advancing linguistic theory and practical applications. From a linguistic perspective, understanding a corpus entails recognizing it as a repository of genuine language usage, fundamentally underpinned by computational technology. However, effective utilization of corpus data mandates rigorous analysis and preprocessing. This abstract provides an overview of corpus linguistics, elucidating its significance in language research and its intricate relationship with computational linguistics