Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Translating & Interpreting, Linguistics
| Author: | Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu | ISBN: | 9783642413636 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Publication: | July 16, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Springer | Language: | English |
| Author: | Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu |
| ISBN: | 9783642413636 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publication: | July 16, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Springer |
| Language: | English |
This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world’s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical features of translational Chinese in English-to-Chinese translation – a significant contribution to Descriptive Translation Studies. The research findings based on these two distinctly different languages have important implications for universal translation research on the European tradition.
This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world’s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical features of translational Chinese in English-to-Chinese translation – a significant contribution to Descriptive Translation Studies. The research findings based on these two distinctly different languages have important implications for universal translation research on the European tradition.
