Corpus-driven Methodology for Exploring Cultural References in the Areas of Cooking, Football and Hotel Industry

This paper investigates how corpora can reveal cultural aspects, so as to contribute to the construction of comprehensive bilingual Portuguese-English specialized glossaries of cooking, football and hotels. Despite posing a great challenge for translators, these areas lack bilingual terminological reference works. As a consequence, appropriateness and idiomaticity in the target texts may be compromised. The methodology used here shows that specialized corpora can expand the scope of terminological research by revealing cultural aspects of a special subject field through its linguistic patterns and also enable the search for equivalents in the target language. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.