Overview
- The first book-length, comprehensive account of translational Chinese
- An in-depth investigation into universal translation hypotheses
- An excellent demonstration of using corpora in translation studies
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies (NFTS)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“This book by Xiao and Hu (2015) provides a much needed perspective and directs their efforts towards investigating the linguistic features of translational Chinese by probing into two genetically different languages, Chinese and English. The readers should be delighted to find that on the one hand … . the book is to date the most comprehensive study of translational Chinese adopting a corpus approach.” (Wenchao Su and Defeng Li, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 31 (3), 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation
Authors: Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
Series Title: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41363-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41362-9Published: 24 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51692-8Published: 18 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41363-6Published: 16 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2197-8689
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8697
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Translation, Linguistics, general