Universals of Translation : A Corpus-based Investigation of Chinese Translated Fiction

In the present study, all three of the above previously-studied recurrent features of translation are hypothesized and investigated, together with a fourth (leveling-out) will therefore be thoroughly explored in comparable corpora of Chinese translated fiction. We are motivated and committed to conducting the present study to make a contribution to the field of corpus linguistics, by gathering corpora of non-English texts, and by using self-built corpora to investigate all the four recurrent features of translation proposed by Mona Baker.

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