Corpus-based Translation and Interpreting Studies in Chinese Contexts Present and Future

This edited collection reflects on the development of Chinese corpus-based translation and interpreting studies while emphasising perspectives emerging from a region that has traditionally been given scant consideration in English-language dominated literature. Striking the balance between methodological and theoretical discussion on corpus-based empirical research into Chinese translation and interpreting studies, the chapters additionally introduce and examine a wide variety of case studies. The authors include up-to-date corpus-based research, and place emphasis on new perspectives such as sociology-informed approaches and cognitive translation studies. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of translation/interpreting and contrastive linguistics studies, corpus linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.

Preface.- Part One: Corpus-based research on translational Chinese.- Corpus-based Research on Translational Chinese.- The Role of Translation Played in the Evolution of Mandarin: A Corpus-based Account.- Part Two: Corpus-based interpreting studies.- Corpus-based Interpreting Studies in China: Overview and Prospects.- Norms and Norm-Taking in Interpreting for Chinese Government Press Conferences: A Case Study of Hedges.- Part Three: Corpus-based research on styles.- Exploring the Roles of Semantic Prosody and Semantic Preference for Achieving Cross-language Equivalence: a corpus-based contrastive analysis of translation pairs in English and Chinese.- Looking for Translator's Fingerprints: A Corpus-based Study on Chinese Translations of Ulysses.- Part Four: Exploratory and critical approaches to corpus-based translation studies.- Discourses about China in Translations of Two Korean news Outlets: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis Approach.- Corpus-based Translation Studies and Translation Cognition Research: Similarity and Convergence.