Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032287386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

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Moratto and Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches

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Introduction 1. Diachronic Trends in Fiction Authors’ Conceptualizations of Their Practices 2. Within-author Style Variation in Literary Nonfiction: The Situational Perspective 3. Charles Dickens’ Influence on Benito Pérez Galdós Revisited: A Corpus-stylistic Approach 4. A Corpus-Stylistic Approach to the Literary Representation of Narrative Space in Ruiz Zafón’s The Cemetery of Forgotten Books Series 5. Analyzing Who, What and Where in a Historical Corpus: A Case Study on the Chinese Buddhist Canon 6. Corpora and Literary Translation 7. Orality in Translated and Non-translated Fictional Dialogues 8. The Avoidance of Repetition in Translation: A Multifactorial Study of Repeated Reporting Verbs in The Italian Translation of The Harry Potter Series 9. Feminist Translation of Sexual Content: A Quantitative Study on Chinese Versions of The Color Purple 10. Benefits of a Corpus-based Approach to Translations. The Example of Huckleberry Finn. 11. Are Translated Chinese Wuxia Fiction and Western Heroic Literature Similar? A Stylometric Analysis Based on Stylistic Panoramas 12. Translating Personal Reference: A Corpus-based Study of the English Translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes 13. Lexical Bundles in the Fictional Dialogues of Two Hongloumeng Translations: A Corpus-Assisted Approach 14. Mapping Culture-specific and Creative Metaphors in Lu Xun’s Short Stories by L1 and L2 English Translators: A Corpus-assisted Relevance-Theoretical Account 15. On a Historical Approach to Cantonese Studies: A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of the Use of Classifiers in Historical and Recent Translations of the Four Gospels