Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation: A Corpus Study on Commercial Chinese-To-English Translation

ISBN-13: 9780367321307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.

Haoda Feng

Opis

This book shows that examining the use of collocations constitutes an integral part in assessing the naturalness of second language use, and can be a valid measure distinguish between translational language and native-speaker language.

Spis treści

1. Form, meaning and function in collocation: a corpus study on commercial Chinese-to-English translation  2. Literature review: collocation and Translation Studies  3. Preliminary study: setting the stage  4. Research design: methodology and data processing  5. Data analysis: features of Chinese translators’ use of English collocations in the commercial register (Part I)  6. Data analysis: features of Chinese translators’ use of English collocations in the commercial register (Part II)  7. Translation universals in Chinese translators’ use of L2 English collocations  8. Implications of findings  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Haoda Feng is Deputy Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Associate Professor at Bohai University, China. He completed his PhD at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.