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Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) Paperback - 2016
by Xiao, Richard
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- Title Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)
- Author Xiao, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 205
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 2016-10-18
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3662516926.G
- ISBN 9783662516928 / 3662516926
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.19 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 410
From the rear cover
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.