Method
The disciplinary framework within which the TRACE project is located is Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) and the basic methodology used combines techniques from this field of study with those of corpus linguistics. The procedure followed is as given below:
- Preliminary analysis of contextual data.
- Cataloguing of source texts (STs) and their respective target texts (TTs).
- Selection of representative sets of texts.
- Descriptive and comparative analysis of the texts selected.
- Establishment of translation norms.
For further information, see:
Gutiérrez Lanza, Camino. 2005. La labor del equipo TRACE: metodología descriptiva de la censura en traducción. En Merino, R.; J.M. Santamaría & E. Pajares (eds). Trasvases Culturales: Literatura, Cine y Traducción 4. Vitoria: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. 55-64.
Rabadán, Rosa & Merino, Raquel. 2004. (Edition and translation, presentation of the translation and introduction to the Spanish edition) Gideon Toury. Los Estudios Descriptivos de Traducción y más allá. Metodología de la investigación en Estudios de Traducción. Madrid: Cátedra.