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Literature Review on Corpus―based Translation Studies 　　【Abstract】Corpus linguistics is a way of studying language by the assistant of computer tools. It has served as a particular and brand-new methodological framework for translation studies， and obtained a growing interest from all researchers and scholars. While corpus-based translation studies is not a translation theory but a new approach and discipline， which is presenting a brilliant picture for us gradually. This paper introduces the development of this field and analyzes the significance between corpus linguistics and translation. 中国论文网 /1/viewhtm　　【Key words】Literature Review； Corpus-based； Translation Studies 　　1. Introduction 　　Translation studies has experienced five paradigms of development， which are “philological studies， linguistics studies， cultural studies， philosophical studies and cognitive studies.” 　　（王克非2012）Since 1990， with the rise of corpus linguistics and descriptive translation studies， translation studies has produced a new research model―corpus-based translation studies. The main content of the new model is the construction of the corpus of translation studies， translation language characteristics， the translator’s style， translational norms， translation practice， teaching translation and interpretation， and so on. The famous scholar in China， Wang Kefei once defined that：“Corpus-based translation studies is a translational research approach for exploring the essence of translation and interpreting a diachronic or synchronic translation phenomena with the guide of language and translation theories， using the means of probability and statistics， taking mass bilingual and real language materials as examples， adopting the combination of bilingual and interlingua contrast methods.” （王克非2012）From the above definition， we can see that corpus-based translation studies it is more objective， scientific and systematic when we compared it with the traditional type of translation studi