Descripción microestructural contrastiva inglés-español de un corpus de sitios web corporativos sobre automoción: análisis léxico cuantitativo-cualitativo y problemas en traducción

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the microstructure of a pseudocomparable corpus on corporate websites in the automotive sector, focusing on the lexical items. In order to achieve these objectives, a corpus linguistic framework, some functionalist linguistic theories and a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) method, whose principles are described in existing literature, have been followed. With the exception of some translation mistakes, the results suggest that there is no remarkable difference between the original versions (United States English and United Kingdom English) and the target versions (Spain Spanish). This might be due to the internationalization and localization processes.