Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation

• Main Authors: Xiao, Richard (Author), Hu, Xianyao (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Translation and interpretation.; Translation.; Linguistics, general.

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 e...

Table of Contents:

• Notes for transcription
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Corpus-based Translation Studies: An evolving paradigm
• Exploring the features of translational language
• Corpora and corpus tools in use
• The macro-statistic features of translational Chinese
• The lexical features of translational Chinese
• The grammatical features of translational Chinese
• The features of translational Chinese and Translation Universals
• Conclusive remarks.