Introduction: The ascent of corpus-based translation studies

Yu Zhai
and 
Bin 
Xu
’s contribution is based on a small aligned parallel corpus of six Chinese translations 
of children’s literary books winners of the prestigious 
Newbury Medal Award
.
2
The study 
investigates the phenomenon of 
embellishment
, a stylistic feature that characterizes 
Chinese translations of contemporary English children’s literature. Embellishment, which 
is viewed by the authors as a form of lexical over-explicitation, is found in five out of the 
six translations included in the corpus. The authors conclude that the phenomenon can be 
explained in terms of translators’ choices and editors’ preferences. 
Within the field of applied corpus studies of translation, 
Koliswa Moropa
and 
Bulelwa Nokele
’s provide an overview of the state of the art of specialized multilingual 
1
 
https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk
. 
2
 
https://www.britannica.com/art/Newbery-Medal
 

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parallel corpora constructed as resources for terminology development and 
terminological aids for researchers, as well as prospective and practicing translators 
working from English into several official indigenous African languages, namely
IsiZulu, 
IsiXhosa, IsiNdebele, SiSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. Focusing on current research 
that is being carried out at the University of South Africa (Unisa), the authors demonstrate 
how, the skillful use of the different functions provided by the software tool 
ParaConc 
(Barlow 2003) in the 
University of South Africa Multilingual Parallel Corpus
3
 
(UNISA) 
––which is constantly being expanded to include more and more subject-specific 
domains–– is a highly valuable resource for enriching the target languages. UNISA is 
contributing significantly to implementing the national language policy adopted since 
1994, which is aimed at developing and intellectualizing the African indigenous 
languages for teaching, learning, and research. 
Finally, within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research area of translation in 
language learning and teaching,