Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison
has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and …

This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order
preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order …

This paper discusses the creation and use of the TV Corpus (subtitles from 75,000 episodes,
325 million words, 6 English-speaking countries, 1950s-2010s) and the Movies Corpus …

This chapter conceives of the broad field of empirical translation studies as involving two
intersecting planes. The first plane is primarily methodological, and relates to the nature of …

Previous corpus-based studies, which have mostly focused on a particular film or series,
have identified various key characteristics of telecinematic language. However, a restriction …

This chapter provides an overview of corpus approaches to audiovisual subtitling. It
illuminates the theoretical and practical insights drawn from previous subtitling research by …

Movie and TV subtitles are frequently employed in natural language processing (NLP)
applications, but there are limited Japanese-Chinese bilingual corpora accessible as a …

Focussing on the verbal code alone in audiovisual translation research is often criticised as
it supposedly disregards the semiotic and cultural complexity of the audiovisual text. This …

The present paper discusses connectivity and proximity maps of causative constructions and
combines them with different types of typological data. In the first case study, I show how one …

English-language, and especially US-American TV series have been identified as a major
point of contact with the target language for learners of English as a Foreign Language, and …