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Hybridity in Translated Chinese

A Corpus Analytical Framework

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Authors:
  1. Guangrong Dai

    1. School of Humanities, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

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  • Makes a genuine contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the inter-related fields of comparative linguistics, corpus linguistics and translation studies
  • Offers a systematic analysis on the hybridity features of translated Chinese
  • Presents new software for building English and Chinese parallel Corpora, aligning English-Chinese at sentence level

Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies (NFTS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Guangrong Dai
    Pages 1-10

  3. Hybridity in Translation Studies

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    Pages 11-19

  4. Hybridity within CTS

    • Guangrong Dai
    Pages 21-37

  5. Hybridity in Anglicised Chinese

    • Guangrong Dai
    Pages 39-52

  6. Corpus Methodology and Design

    • Guangrong Dai
    Pages 53-70

  7. Native and Translated Chinese: Normality and Hybridity

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    Pages 71-88

  8. Lexical Features of Hybridity in Translated Chinese

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    Pages 89-107

  9. Classifier Constructions in Translated Chinese

    • Guangrong Dai
    Pages 109-132

  10. Light Verbs in Translated Chinese

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    Pages 133-154

  11. Syntactic Hybridity in TC: ‘SHI’ Structures

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    Pages 155-174

  12. Nominalization and Cohesive Features in TC

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    Pages 175-191

  13. Conclusions and Expectations

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    Pages 193-200

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 201-233
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About this book

This book investigates the characteristics of hybridity in Chinese texts that have been translated from English. It also explores the potential impact of translation and hybridity on written Chinese over the past 70 years. It suggests that English-Chinese translations have introduced more and more hybrid structures into Chinese. This book can help us with understanding language change and development, and it can also shed new light on the translation process and help identify translation norms. 


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“Another prominent feature of this book is the generous wealth of information it makes available to readers. … this is a highly recommended book. Both thought-provoking, and enlightening, it will no doubt offer its readers inspiration, particularly researchers pursuing further exploration of linguistic hybridity in hybridity in translated language.” (Linxin Liang and Mingwu Xu, Languages in Contrast, Vol. 18 (2), 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

    Guangrong Dai

About the author

Guangrong Dai, associate professor and vice dean of School of Humanities at Fujian University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D in Corpus Translation Studies from the Department of English, University of Macau, China. His research interests include translation studies, corpus linguistics, contrastive language studies and designing software for automatic sentence alignment of Chinese/English parallel corpora. As a principle investigator, he has finished several projects, such as “A Corpus-based Study of ‘SL Shining Through’ in Translational Languages” (China National Foundation of Social Science), and published around 30 journal articles and book chapters on corpus-based translation studies and contrastive language studies. He also published two books (“Source Language Shining through in Translated Languages” 2013, Shanghai: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press; and “A Practical Course for International Business Translation” 2013, Beijing: Beijing Jiaotong University Press and Tsinghua University Press). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hybridity in Translated Chinese

  • Book Subtitle: A Corpus Analytical Framework

  • Authors: Guangrong Dai

  • Series Title: New Frontiers in Translation Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0742-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0741-5Published: 31 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9242-8Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0742-2Published: 20 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2197-8689

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8697

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 158 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Translation

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