关键词: 口译语料库; 语料库口译研究; 文献计量

Abstract: Shlesinger (1998) first proposed that corpus-based interpreting studies (CIS) should be regarded as an offshoot of corpus-based translation studies (CTS). In China, owing to the development and compilation of interpreting corpora, CIS has gained momentum since 2007. To review the past achievements in this regard, the present paper first summarizes four readily compiled interpreting corpora. Then, based on the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CKNI), it conducts the statistics mainly on relevant published papers in Chinese Social Science and Index (CSSCI) journals. Next, it pinpoints a bibliometric analysis on the data by taking into account three parameters, namely, H index, reference citation and their distribution. Then, it makes a detailed review and comments on the background of CIS and its paradigm, theoretical interpretation of CIS and the research areas of CIS, standards of developing interpreting corpora and solutions to difficulties in compilation of interpreting corpora, research orientations including topics and objects. At present, although CIS have attained preliminary findings and conclusions, it has mainly relied on the theoretical and analytical frameworks of Systemic Functional Grammar and its utility in CIS, given the fact that it has introduced few interdisciplinary studies. As a result, CIS do not take full advantage of the paradigm of corpus linguistics nor explore into such research topics as features of interpretation, interpreters’ identities and interpreting styles. Finally, regarding future studies, the paper proposes that CIS should foreground the relevance of improving the mechanism of interpreting corpus compilation in order to gain ground in new research methods and perspectives.

Keywords: interpreting corpus; corpus-based interpreting studies; bibliometric analysis