Most cited papers in Translation Studies and Practices
What are the most cited papers in Translation Studies and Practices?
The most cited paper in Translation Studies and Practices is "Diglossia" (Charles A. Ferguson, 1959), with 3,051 citations. Next come "The Sketch Engine" (2,106) and "Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing" (1,986).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 262 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diglossia Charles A. Ferguson · WORD | 1959 | 3,051 |
| 2 | The Sketch Engine Adam Kilgarriff, Vít Baisa, Jan Bušta et al. · Lexicography | Jul 2014 | 2,106 |
| 3 | Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing Jiandong Sun, Ken Hyland · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,986 |
| 4 | Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications Jeremy Munday | 8 Feb 2022 | 1,515 |
| 5 | Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas Bogusia Temple, Alys M. Young · Qualitative Research | 5 Jul 2004 | 1,299 |
| 6 | Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power Charles L. Briggs, Richard W Bauman · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Dec 1992 | 1,164 |
| 7 | The Other Tongue: English across Cultures Kimberley Brown, Braj Β. Kachru · TESOL Quarterly | 1995 | 1,138 |
| 8 | Translation Techniques Revisited: A Dynamic and Functionalist Approach Lucía Molina, Amparo Hurtado Albir · Meta Journal des traducteurs | 30 Aug 2004 | 1,026 |
| 9 | Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications Pilar Mur-Dueñas · Miscelánea A Journal of English and American Studies | 31 Dec 2003 | 1,001 |
| 10 | Implications of Language Barriers for Healthcare: A Systematic Review Hilal Al Shamsi, Abdullah Ghthaith Almutairi, Sulaiman Al Mashrafi et al. · Oman Medical Journal | 15 Mar 2020 | 1,000 |
| 11 | The Discursive Construction of National Identities Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, Ruth Wodak · Discourse & Society | Apr 1999 | 962 |
| 12 | Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability David Damrosch · Comparative Literature Studies | Sep 2014 | 842 |
| 13 | The Translator as Communicator. Susan Berk‐Seligson · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Dec 1997 | 839 |
| 14 | Categories of the Theory of Grammar M.A.K. Halliday · WORD | 1961 | 741 |
| 15 | Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second-Language Writing Barbara A Lafford, Ulla Connor · Modern Language Journal | 1997 | 735 |
| 16 | The Pivotal Status of the Translator’s Habitus Daniel Simeoni · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1998 | 711 |
| 17 | Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism Kathryn A. Woolard · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Jun 1998 | 705 |
| 18 | Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and cultural nationalism Naoki Sakai, Meaghan Morris · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) | Feb 2008 | 701 |
| 19 | OpenSubtitles2016: Extracting Large Parallel Corpora from Movie and TV Subtitles Pierre Lison, Jörg Tiedemann | May 2016 | 698 |
| 20 | Memes of Translation: The spread of ideas in translation theory Andrew Chesterman | 1997 | 683 |
| 21 | Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account Mona Baker | 2006 | 658 |
| 22 | Rhetorical structure of biochemistry research articles Budsaba Kanoksilapatham · English for Specific Purposes | 2005 | 602 |
| 23 | Toward Understanding Practices of Medical Interpreting: Interpreters' Involvement in History Taking Galina B. Bolden · Discourse Studies | Nov 2000 | 588 |
| 24 | The Next Generation of the ITC Test Translation and Adaptation Guidelines Ronald K. Hambleton · European Journal of Psychological Assessment | Sep 2001 | 586 |
| 25 | Communication through Interpreters in Healthcare: Ethical Dilemmas Arising from Differences in Class, Culture, Language, and Power Joseph M. Kaufert, Robert W. Putsch · The Journal of Clinical Ethics | Mar 1997 | 546 |
| 26 | Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context Tejaswini Niranjana · Digital Commons - Lingnan (Lingnan University) | 1992 | 545 |
| 27 | Building a translation competence model PACTE · Benjamins translation library | 24 Nov 2003 | 542 |
| 28 | A Framework of a Mechanical Translation between Japanese and English by Analogy Principle Makoto Nagao · The MIT Press eBooks | 6 Jun 2003 | 529 |
| 29 | Negation in Language: Pragmatics, Function, Ontology Talmy Givón | 20 Dec 1978 | 521 |
| 30 | Corpora in Translation Studies Mona Baker · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1995 | 510 |
| 31 | Corpus Linguistics at Work Elena Tognini-Bonelli · Computational Linguistics | Dec 2002 | 498 |
| 32 | Genre identification and communicative purpose: a problem and a possible solution Inger Askehave · Applied Linguistics | Jun 2001 | 489 |
| 33 | Redefining Translation Competence in an Electronic Age. In Defence of a Minimalist Approach Anthony Pym · Meta Journal des traducteurs | 6 Aug 2004 | 483 |
| 34 | Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19) Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà et al. | 2019 | 478 |
| 35 | Two Types of Convention in Indirect Speech Acts Jerry L. Morgan | 20 Dec 1978 | 476 |
| 36 | The Power of Commemorative Street Names Maoz Azaryahu · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Jun 1996 | 465 |
| 37 | Explorations in applied linguistics Norman F. Davies · System | May 1980 | 454 |
| 38 | Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie | 30 Sep 1996 | 450 |
| 39 | Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present Juliane House · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 2014 | 434 |
| 40 | La retraduction comme espace de la traduction Antoine Berman · Palimpsestes | 1990 | 425 |
| 41 | Towards a Sociology of Translation Johan Heilbron · European Journal of Social Theory | Nov 1999 | 423 |
| 42 | The Translator's Voice in Translated Narrative Théo Hermans · Target International Journal of Translation Studies | 1996 | 423 |
| 43 | Findings of the 2017 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17) Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann et al. | 2017 | 420 |
| 44 | Assessing gender bias in machine translation: a case study with Google Translate Marcelo Prates, Pedro Avelar, Luís C. Lamb · Neural Computing and Applications | 27 Mar 2019 | 411 |
| 45 | Captioning and Subtitling: Undervalued Language Learning Strategies Martine Danan · Meta Journal des traducteurs | 13 Sep 2004 | 410 |
| 46 | Should we teach EFL students collocations? Jens Bahns, Moira Eldaw · System | Feb 1993 | 408 |
| 47 | 2. Disentangling the phraseological web Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot · John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks | Jun 2008 | 400 |
| 48 | Examining the “voice of interpreting” in speech pathology Raffaela Merlini, Roberta Favaron · Interpreting International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting | 9 Nov 2005 | 398 |
| 49 | The effects of captioning videos used for foreign language listening activities Paula M. Winke, Susan M. Gass, Tetyana Sydorenko · Language learning & technology | Feb 2010 | 397 |
| 50 | Categories of the Theory of Grammar Mark Halliday | 31 Dec 1972 | 395 |
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