1 Introduction Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of corpora heat. One of the many fields where corpora have agrowing impact is translation, both at a descriptive and apractical level. Chesterman pointed out that the focus of Translation Studies shifted from translation itself to translators, 1 Introduction Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of corpora heat. One of the many fields where corpora have agrowing impact is translation, both at a descriptive and apractical level. Chesterman pointed out that the focus of Translation Studies shifted from translation itself to translators,