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1. Title Title of document Preface - Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Hailing Yu; Department of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Hunan University; China
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Translation Studies; Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) systemic funtcional linguistics; SFL; translation studies; Platform Sutra; Chan Buddhist; Huineng; SysFan; SysConc; Wmatrix; mood; modality; multimodality
 
5. Subject Subject classification Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
6. Description Abstract The book applies systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to the comparison of four English translations of the Platform Sutra (1930, 1977, 1998 and 2011) in the field of translation studies. The Platform Sutra is an ancient Chan Buddhist text that records the public sermons and conversations of the Chan master Huineng (638-713).


The focus of the book is on the image of Huineng recreated in each translation. The book integrates quantitative and qualitative analyses, adopting corpus linguistic tools such as SysFan, SysConc, and Wmatrix, with its methodology applicable in future studies. The analyses of the four translations are conducted from the perspectives of verbs of saying, personal pronouns, Mood and Modality, multimodality and evaluation, and textual complexity, which are within the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions of SFL respectively. Both the recreating of images and the lexicogrammatical choices are further interpreted by taking the context of translation (Field, Tenor, Mode) into consideration.


The book provides an appropriate way to combine systemic functional linguistics with translation studies, highlighting the relationship between language, culture and translation. It also raises the question concerning the status of translated texts as the basis of scholarly research in the English world.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 20-Jul-2019
 
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/39014
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.39014
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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