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

  • 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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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 1-7
  3. Corpus-Based Translation Studies: An Evolving Paradigm

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 9-20
  4. Exploring the Features of Translational Language

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 21-35
  5. Corpora and Corpus Tools in Use

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 37-66
  6. The Macro-Statistic Features of Translational Chinese

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 67-87
  7. The Lexical Features of Translational Chinese

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 89-120
  8. The Grammatical Features of Translational Chinese

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 121-155
  9. Conclusive Remarks

    • Richard Xiao, Xianyao Hu
    Pages 169-176
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-205

About this book

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.

Reviews

“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) 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Richard Xiao

  • College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

    Xianyao Hu

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

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eBook USD 39.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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