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A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms (2003)
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Charteris-Black, J. (2003). A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms. In S. Granger,, J. Lerot, & S. Petch-Tyson (Eds.), Corpus Based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies (123-240). Editions Rodopi B.V

The aim of this paper is to establish a principled basis for the translation of English and Malay idioms and to consider some of the ways that a corpus can be used to assist in this task. Initially a number of problems with corpus based research of a... Read More about A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms.