By Libo Huang
This e-book makes an attempt to discover style—a conventional topic—in literary translation with a corpus-based method. A parallel corpus along with the English translations of recent and modern chinese language novels is brought and used because the significant context for the examine. the fashion in translation is approached from views of the author/the resource textual content, the translated texts and the translator. either the parallel version and the similar version are hired and a multiple-complex version of comparability is proposed. The learn version, either quantitative and qualitative, is duplicable inside different language pairs. except the fundamentals of corpus development, readers may well detect that literary texts provide an awesome context for stylistic examine and a parallel corpus of literary texts could provide a number of observations to the fashion in translation. during this e-book, readers might discover a shut interplay among translation concept and perform. Tables and figures are used to aid the argumentation. The ebook might be of curiosity to postgraduate scholars, academics and execs who're attracted to corpus-based translation experiences and stylistics.
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Newmark’s categorization of style is based on formality, difficulty, and emotional tone: styles based on formality can be subcategorized into officialese, official, formal, neutral, informal, colloquial, slang, and taboo; styles based on difficulty can be subcategorized into simple, popular, neutral, educated, technical, and opaquely technical; styles based on emotional tone can be subcategorized into intense, warm, factual, and understatement (1988: 14–15). Newmark’s categorization is from the perspective of language function and text type, and it focuses more on language style and register.
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