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

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...

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Main Authors: Xiao, Richard. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hu, Xianyao. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:New Frontiers in Translation Studies,
Subjects:
Translation and interpretation.
Linguistics.
Translation.
Linguistics, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41363-6
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.

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