The Translational English Corpus held at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester is a computerised collection of authentic, published translations into English from a variety of source languages and by a wide range of professional translators. This resource provides the basis for investigating a range of issues to do with the distinctive nature of translated text, the style of individual translators, the impact of individual source languages on the patterning of English, the impact of text type on translation strategies, and other issues of interest to both the translation scholar and the practitioner.

This talk will focus on the potential for exploiting the Corpus in a variety of ways for research purposes. It will outline a broad research programme for corpus-based studies, discuss examples of research issues that have been explored using corpus resources at the University of Manchester, and offer a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this type of research.