The exploration of universal features of translation with the empirical study of translation process, think-aloud protocol, Translog and the combination of induction and deduction has established a methodological foundation for corpus-based translation studies.
多元系统理论学家的倡导和发展描述性研究方法与Mona Baker对翻译总特征的系统研究促成了翻译英语语料库的诞生。