Quantitative methods in corpus based translation studies a practical guide to descriptive translation research michael p oakes and meng ji eds 2013 reviewed by ana rojo most advocates of descriptive empirical research would agree that knowl edge comes from empirical analysis for empiricists knowledge or ideas that. This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for corpus based translation studies cbts it provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in corpus linguistics which can be used in translation research in part 1 theoretical explorations the interplay between quantitative and qualitative methodologies is explored. Corpus based translation studies cbts an area of research that investigates the product and process of translation through corpora has come a long way since it was envisioned by mona baker in her seminal article titled corpus linguistics and translation studies implications and applications published in 1993. This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for corpus based translation studies cbts it provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in corpus linguistics which can be used in translation research in part 1 theoretical explorations the interplay between quantitative and qualitative methodologies is explored. Oakes and ji 2012 as announced in the introduction offered a practical guide to the use of quantitative methods needed for corpus based translation studies cbts an area of research that