The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s transl...The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation was made from the perspective of translation universals on three levels,namely lexical level,syntactic level and textual level.The results show that two translations both reflect the translation universals to some extent,but Hawkes’translation is more consistent with the translation universals in comparison with Yang Xianyi’s on the whole.展开更多
Corpus Translation Studies (CTS) is a new field in translation studies and the representation of corpus is quite an important issue that deserves attention. At present, the translation theoretical circle holds diffe...Corpus Translation Studies (CTS) is a new field in translation studies and the representation of corpus is quite an important issue that deserves attention. At present, the translation theoretical circle holds different views on translation corpora and internal structures. Indeed, the existing translation theories can hardly be applied to CTS. As such, CTS can only make further development after the problem of corpora representation is solved.展开更多
In the article,Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies:A Guide for Research is reviewed.Overall,the book can act as a handy guide to the field of corpus-based contrastive and translation studies for...In the article,Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies:A Guide for Research is reviewed.Overall,the book can act as a handy guide to the field of corpus-based contrastive and translation studies for researchers,particularly beginning ones.It informs readers of parallel corpus building and using such a corpus for various research purposes with different software,etc.However,the book can be improved,apart from some minor errors,by covering studies on parallel corpora involving language pairs other than European ones,those on interpretation corpora,and so on.展开更多
Poetry is an integral part of the artistic framework of A Dream of Red Mansions,and plays a crucial role in shaping the atmosphere,portraying characters,and reflecting social reality,therefore it has both unique artis...Poetry is an integral part of the artistic framework of A Dream of Red Mansions,and plays a crucial role in shaping the atmosphere,portraying characters,and reflecting social reality,therefore it has both unique artistic charm and research value.This paper takes Kuhn’s and Schwarz’s translation of A Dream of Red Mansions as the research objects,selects 19 poems that both translators have translated to make a corpus,uses the software LancsBox to compare the translations from three levels of vocabulary,syntax,and text,in order to provide a new interpretation dimension for the translation research of A Dream of Red Mansions and enrich the application of the corpus-based method in the field of translation research of Chinese classics.展开更多
Being widely used in global trade,the translation of international trade terms is necessary.Major procedures in this article are as following:(1)collecting 750 international trade terms and their Chinese translations ...Being widely used in global trade,the translation of international trade terms is necessary.Major procedures in this article are as following:(1)collecting 750 international trade terms and their Chinese translations from dictionaries,journals and official websites related to international trade terms;(2)using Tmxmall to align the international trade terms and their Chinese translation to build a parallel corpus;(3)selecting 120 out of the 750 international trade terms through random sampling;(4)classifying the international trade terms into four types through POS-tagging in CLAWS5;(5)basing on the functional equivalence and summarizing the main translation methods of international trade terms.The result shows literal translation,free translation and combination of literal and free translation employed in the Chinese translation of international trade terms.展开更多
The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two mo...The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two modern Chinese versions of Gabriel Garcfa Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The case study reveals that in translating linguistic events, textual features and cultural phenomena that are unknown to the target audience, for example, magical realism, into Chinese, translators may adopt a range of translation strategies and tactics that lead to significant differences between the genre of the translation and the corre- sponding genre in the target language. New linguistic expressions and writing techniques introduced by experimental literary translation will either be normalised by existing writing conventions or be accepted by the target readership which in turn will expand and enrich the target language and cultural system.展开更多
基金This paper is supported by the Excellent Dissertation Cultivation Funds of Wuhan University of Technology(2018-YS-090).
文摘The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation was made from the perspective of translation universals on three levels,namely lexical level,syntactic level and textual level.The results show that two translations both reflect the translation universals to some extent,but Hawkes’translation is more consistent with the translation universals in comparison with Yang Xianyi’s on the whole.
文摘Corpus Translation Studies (CTS) is a new field in translation studies and the representation of corpus is quite an important issue that deserves attention. At present, the translation theoretical circle holds different views on translation corpora and internal structures. Indeed, the existing translation theories can hardly be applied to CTS. As such, CTS can only make further development after the problem of corpora representation is solved.
基金supported by Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education under Grant(JGY2019072)Innovation Project of Graduate Education of Guangxi Minzu University under Grant(gxun-chxjg201810)+1 种基金Science Foundation of Guangxi Minzu University(2021SKQD32)The First-Class Discipline of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at School of Foreign Studies,Guangxi Minzu University under Grant(2019YLZD05).
文摘In the article,Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies:A Guide for Research is reviewed.Overall,the book can act as a handy guide to the field of corpus-based contrastive and translation studies for researchers,particularly beginning ones.It informs readers of parallel corpus building and using such a corpus for various research purposes with different software,etc.However,the book can be improved,apart from some minor errors,by covering studies on parallel corpora involving language pairs other than European ones,those on interpretation corpora,and so on.
文摘Poetry is an integral part of the artistic framework of A Dream of Red Mansions,and plays a crucial role in shaping the atmosphere,portraying characters,and reflecting social reality,therefore it has both unique artistic charm and research value.This paper takes Kuhn’s and Schwarz’s translation of A Dream of Red Mansions as the research objects,selects 19 poems that both translators have translated to make a corpus,uses the software LancsBox to compare the translations from three levels of vocabulary,syntax,and text,in order to provide a new interpretation dimension for the translation research of A Dream of Red Mansions and enrich the application of the corpus-based method in the field of translation research of Chinese classics.
文摘Being widely used in global trade,the translation of international trade terms is necessary.Major procedures in this article are as following:(1)collecting 750 international trade terms and their Chinese translations from dictionaries,journals and official websites related to international trade terms;(2)using Tmxmall to align the international trade terms and their Chinese translation to build a parallel corpus;(3)selecting 120 out of the 750 international trade terms through random sampling;(4)classifying the international trade terms into four types through POS-tagging in CLAWS5;(5)basing on the functional equivalence and summarizing the main translation methods of international trade terms.The result shows literal translation,free translation and combination of literal and free translation employed in the Chinese translation of international trade terms.
文摘The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two modern Chinese versions of Gabriel Garcfa Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The case study reveals that in translating linguistic events, textual features and cultural phenomena that are unknown to the target audience, for example, magical realism, into Chinese, translators may adopt a range of translation strategies and tactics that lead to significant differences between the genre of the translation and the corre- sponding genre in the target language. New linguistic expressions and writing techniques introduced by experimental literary translation will either be normalised by existing writing conventions or be accepted by the target readership which in turn will expand and enrich the target language and cultural system.