Bibliography-based quantitative translation history.

Compared with qualitative methods, quantitative methods can help detect and interpret patterns and regularities in translation history. However, quantitative methods rarely have been used in translation history research, mostly for lack of statistical data. The highly structured nature of bibliograp...

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Published in:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 98 - 120
Main Authors: Zhou, Xiaoyan, Sun, Sanjun
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2017
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          School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, Beijing, China
          School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
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        Translations
        Bibliometrics
        Data quality
        Psychoanalysis
        Quantitative research
        History
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          Bibliometrics
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        bibliographies
        bibliometrics
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        Translation history
      ab: Compared with qualitative methods, quantitative methods can help detect and interpret patterns and regularities in translation history. However, quantitative methods rarely have been used in translation history research, mostly for lack of statistical data. The highly structured nature of bibliographical data and their availability make them an ideal data source for quantitative history. Drawing on the discipline of book history, this paper introduces bibliographical sources for quantitative translation history, presents techniques for retrieving, analyzing and presenting bibliographic data, reviews some existing quantitative studies related to translation history, and describes some of our own preliminary findings. Despite issues in data quality, the bibliography-based quantitative approach opens an avenue for investigating systematically how books were produced, translated and published, where they were distributed, and who was reading them.
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