Hybridity in Translated Chinese A Corpus Analytical Framework

This book investigates the characteristics of hybridity in Chinese texts that have been translated from English. It also explores the potential impact of translation and hybridity on written Chinese over the past 70 years. It suggests that English-Chinese translations have introduced more and more h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dai, Guangrong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book investigates the characteristics of hybridity in Chinese texts that have been translated from English. It also explores the potential impact of translation and hybridity on written Chinese over the past 70 years. It suggests that English-Chinese translations have introduced more and more hybrid structures into Chinese. This book can help us with understanding language change and development, and it can also shed new light on the translation process and help identify translation norms.
Physical Description:XXIV, 233 p. 168 illus., 158 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789811007422