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4. Normalization in translating personal collocations: A corpus study of Chinese translations of Ulysses


 
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1. Title Title of document 4. Normalization in translating personal collocations: A corpus study of Chinese translations of Ulysses - Empirical Translation Studies
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Defeng Li; University of London;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Wang Qing
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Yuanjian He; University of Macau
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) normalization; personal collocation; translation universals; corpus-based translation study; Chinese translation of Ulysses
 
6. Description Abstract This study explores the Chinese translation of James Joyce’s personal collocations in Ulysses. Our primary research question is whether the author’s novelty in word collocation is “normalized” by the translator into commonplace phraseology. The methodology adopted is a corpus-based translation study, with a paralel corpus consisting of the source text of Ulysses and its Chinese transtion by Qian Xiao, and a comparable corpus of the translator’s own creative writings in Chinese. The comparison of the translation with the source text shows that Joyce’s creative phraseology is normalized by the translator. A further examination of personal collocations in Xiao’s Chinese creative writings reveals that he is versed in creating stylistic effects by using his own personal collocations. We expound on three possible factors for such a divergence: different roles the translator/writer assumed for himself, the importance he attached to the authorial style , and the different linguistic features displayed by the source and target language.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-Jan-2016
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/23915
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.23915
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Empirical Translation Studies
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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