Corpus-Based Study on the Explicitation Strategies in Political Text Translation

Abstract:

Many researchers try to detect the application of explicitation in the literature text but there are great limitation in the political text .The purpose of this research is to detect the prominence of explicitation strategies in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume III (1982-1992) with the help of the Chinese English parallel corpus, both quantitative and qualitative methods are adopted. It is found that in the target text the percentage of the connective words of reason and result which were added or explicated comes to 21.96%.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 411-414)
• Pages: 298-301
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.411-414.298
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Yu Ping Tong
• Keywords: Connectives, Corpus, Explicitation

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