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Title: Phraseology in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

Phraseology in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

by Meng Ji (Author)
©2010 Monographs XX, 231 Pages
Linguistics
Series: New Trends in Translation Studies, Volume 1

Summary

Translations of Cervantes’ Don Quijote (1605) take pride of place among foreign literature in China. Despite the contrasts between the two cultures and the passage of four centuries the adventures and misadventures of the Castilian hero have always been popular with Chinese readers.
In this book a corpus-based stylistic study is used to explore two contemporary Mandarin Chinese translations of Don Quijote: those by Yang Jiang (1978) and Liu Jingsheng (1995). Utilising a micro-structural perspective this study suggests explanations for the surprising popularity of Don Quijote in China.

Details

Pages
XX, 231
Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9783035300147
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039115501
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0014-7
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (January)
Keywords
corpus-based study of translations Spanish literature Mandarin Chinese Chinese phraseology
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010. XX, 231 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Meng Ji (Author)

The Author: Meng Ji has a Ph.D. from Imperial College London (2009) within the area of corpus-based translation studies focused on the study of phraseology in literary translations into Chinese. She is presently developing an interdisciplinary approach to corpus-based translation studies by integrating methodologies from disciplines including textual statistics, quantitative sociolinguistics and computational stylometry.

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